The biggest reason most people fail is that they try to fix too much at once - join a gym, get out of debt, floss after meals and have thinner thighs in 30 days.

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

If I'm right in the middle of a deadline, I'm up really early.

It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

I eat all of the time... at least five little meals a day.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.