I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

As long as my body is in shape, my mind is working at its full capacity.

Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.