You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

If you're not invited to the party, throw your own.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

With any president it is difficult to predict how the world will be effected by his presence in the white house.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

I've spent about that amount of time trying to tell the public that there was purpose in... my business, my career and the roller coaster ride... how the people I associated with worked together.

I have a line of clothing at J.C. Penney's... and I'm lucky to be affiliated.

I think if you work in television everyday, and you must be privy to everything happening in television, then do so.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

The real gift of today is somehow finding the me I knew ought to exist but has not.

You can't win an argument with an argument.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

We are a very, very unusual species.

I look at society and I look at people and I say... I'm not Mr. Motivator. I think you get a better sense - I believe in energy. I believe in passion. I believe in teaching people.