The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good.

On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.

In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.