Valentine's Day is the day all singletons like me dread

I've been labelled as the 'big girl' and I've not got a problem with that

It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.

Failure has its successes.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.

West Africa today is just a quarry of paving stones for Hell, and those stones were cemented in place with

I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.

If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.

I worry about the future of this country for our kids and grandkids and America not being on the world stage and that vacuum being filled by the likes of Vladimir Putin.