"I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air."

"It was a big story and yesterday's soup. Who cares?"

"Nature's a tranquilizer as you get older."

"I wore dresses all the time. I like to wear dresses."

"I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost."

"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question."

"I get all fired up about aging in America."

"Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke."

"Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible."

"Never slap a man who chews tobacco."

"I think women can cope a lot better than men."