The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

When a significant other - a spouse, a parent or someone you're close to - is dying, it forces you to think about your life, about what you feel about death. What I realized from my dad's dying was that I wasn't scared of dying. But I was terrified of regrets. I was terrified of getting to the end of my life with a lot of Why didn't I's.

In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be.

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

We need women friends, women who challenge us... I have chosen not to have any more plastic surgery. Sally Field and I have kind of made a pact about that. It's really hard, especially if you're a public person. But I want to give a face to aging.