Choas will come, calm will follow, and then it will start up all over again. The secret is to savor the ride.

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set the words on paper. I typed them up and turned them into a newspaper column of the 45 lessons life taught me. When I hit 50, I added five more lessons and the paper ran the column again.

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.

There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?