I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

Humility, never me; it is a characteristic I expect to find in other people.

I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think I could do it.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.