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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Think how wonderful it might be to no longer matter, Mrs. Peregrine. Think how wonderful it might be to no longer worry, struggle… or fail.

You have the power to feel good—or not—just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.