Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

Doing a TV show, you're on an assembly line and it's as cut and dry as that. There are some shows that are exceptions. There are producers that want really special things.

A lot of people who were the best in their fields. I was fortunate enough to be friends with Sammy Davis, Jr. - I spent a lot of time with Sammy. I was over at his house almost every night. Those people were very special and very special for me.

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

I, for one, love kids in my romance novels. When done right, kids add so much conflict. Not just of the 'interruption on the way to the bedroom' variety. But conflict about commitment and insecurity.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek.

I've often said that while gaining muscle can be very difficult, it's also pretty simple - at the heart of it, you just need to take in more energy than you expend, and use an intelligent program. This is especially true for beginners.

The one thing I am most proud of myself is that I know how to keep my cool and not be intimidated - anyone can be beat.

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.

I have learned to be ready for anything - and be there for my kids. That's what life's all about.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.

To me it's the best trophy you can win and to bring it back for all them fans that have supported us right through would be something special.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

I think that high art reposes on popular art, without one there cannot be another.

It is the conflicting interests of the man and the woman, the home and the shop, the Church and the State, which cause the economic struggle, the war and the strife with which mankind is cursed and which make all long and pray for the reign of peace.

Everyone will not favor you or respect your beliefs, passion and purpose--so be it. But do not allow the views of others to hinder your quest. Remain steadfast.

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

I did not want to later look back in my life and say, 'Why would you not make times change?'

My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.

In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.