You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Doctors are our partners, and they need all the assistance we can give them to be sure we get the right diagnosis.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done, and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.