You're never allowed to step on people to get ahead, but you can step over them if they're in your way.

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.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get

Love is not blind, lovers can see what others cannot see.

The only deadline that concerns me is the day that I die and whether or not I had loved enough while I was here.

... far be it from a French man to interfere with love.

...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.

He that would pun would pick a pocket.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.