Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
I didn't have a very religious family.
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.