There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

I want to be remembered as a woman who was fair and always gave 150 percent, no matter what I did.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.