A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.

It was impossible to convince someone to live for his own sake. But he often thought it would be a more effective treatment to make people feel more urgently the necessity of living for others.

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

If I killed my wife and mother and debauched a thousand women I couldn't go to hell--in fact, I couldn't go to hell if I wanted to.

It is folly to think the Lord provides grace for every trouble but the one you are in today.

There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.

I know it sounds absurd, but 11 months old, I did my first commercial.

I do consider myself to be a feminist.

I grew up in the '80s in L.A., so Ice Cube and Magic Johnson are my heroes.

I can't even tolerate my own playing on electric keyboards. It's not about the musical ideas - the sound itself is toxic. It's like eating plastic broccoli.

It is possible to call Tolstoy Kitsch.