"I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children."

"I love being a wife and homemaker - because it's my choice. My husband doesn't expect me to do it. I don't mind doing things for him because he does so much for me we both feel that way so there is no power struggle."

"You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that."

"I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her."

"I dwell in possibility."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors."

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

"It is a subtle truth that a steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest — an essential principle for the reflective life."