Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

I want the big drama. I always said I don't want a wedding I want a parade.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

In all honesty my cake was baking when I met Al - I had made up in my mind already to get physically healthy. He refreshingly was on his own journey so it was almost as if we walked together.

This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.

You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.

Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

I'm the world's least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you're not in love with.

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.