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

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 was in the middle of a crossroads, which is a nice way of saying crisis, physically, emotionally and spiritually. You know the physical part. We just talked about it.

Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.

If you haven't been happy very young you can still be happy later on but it's much harder. You need more luck.

I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

We are what we are, the spirit afterwards, but first the touch.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

Look, people get drunk ... People chase girls. And the point is, it's a hell of a lot better for them to get drunk than to take drugs. It's better to chase girls than boys.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.