Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.”

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it’s much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a...

I want to be up front racing.

People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won – and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who’ve been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.

It’s incredible when I’m out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I...

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

But this has to happen. You just can’t let people go because they stayed hidden for 25 or 27 or 37, whatever years. It’s ridiculous.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

I have 137 pairs of shoes and 200 pairs of jeans.

A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally...

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

I was never OJ’s closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn’t his enemy either.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

It’s hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

Getting caught is the mother of invention.

When the car’s going well, I purr like a kitten.

When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

But my favorite work is always my next piece.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

None of this was written to hurt anybody’s feelings.

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

I woke up this morning, and I still don’t believe I won the Daytona 500.

Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor’s Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card...

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.

I don’t want to be Kato, the trial guy. It’s like everything I do is under a microscope.

I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.

Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn’t seem to matter.

I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued – with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges,...

My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that’s of value.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

I’m doing comedy development at National Lampoon.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.

My daughters have grown up knowing all about my kidnapping and the case and what happened.

Prejudices save time.

You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.

Second Place is just the first place loser.

I couldn’t go to South Carolina because the media had staked out my parents’ house, so they encouraged me through long-distance phone calls.

When you get to the top, stay there and make sure other women join you.

My art became very public.

Thoughts would go in and out of my mind, but I didn’t want to believe that he could have done it.