Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Never have more children than you have car windows.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I'm taking with me when I go.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior to men.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

The whole environmental policy in the Netherlands has no substance any more.

I basically have a very positive philosophy of life, because I don't feel I have anything to lose. Most things are going to turn out okay.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

Yoga disciplines both the mind and the souls and not just your body. It helps me in having a constant positive outlook in life. I would love my family to adopt this form of fitness as well.

Being single, I thought would be fun, but it is terribly boring. And I am a romantic, but only when I am in love. I can't force it otherwise.

When I am in love, I am ridiculously and hopelessly romantic.

Don't be afraid to admit what your dreams are.

Every time I watch someone's dedication, I get inspired.

Salman is genuinely a nice man who helps people. He is someone who I trust blindly. I think he has been an important person in my life.

Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.

Neither am I on an extreme diet nor am I on an extreme workout.

My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.

First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.