I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.

It takes a lot of courage to be happy (after the death of a spouse), but I've got courage, so I think I will be happy again.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling.

I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.

I don't have to be logical - I'm a mother.

People often ask me what happened to my first husband? And I say, I killed him.

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Many people are confused by their own behavior

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.

What the masses want are monuments.

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

I prefer more spicy food to your Italian to be fair.

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

Resentment is like taking poison in hopes that your enemy will die.