"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."

"Having a child, that's always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child."

"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."

"Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone."

"Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers."

"The best thing about being rich is the freedom freedom to do whatever you want whenever you want. It doesn't suck."