Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

[On husband Phil Donahue:] The man does not know the meaning of the word tidy. He asked me one day, 'Where are my shoes?' So I asked him, 'Where are my shoes?' I don't know what it is about men. They think that women have radar attached to our uteruses.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

If you want to get somewhere in six months, you're not going to get there by wishing it.

If you really need to, you have to make it happen.