Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.

Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Don't you want to save some of the pizza for your brother?" Wasn't there any change?

Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, "Some Americans say it tastes like chicken.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.