Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

Can't is the cancer of happening.

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

Silly ideas, worth the admission price in smiles, but they're true. Is high-energy physics interesting because it's true or because it's crazy?

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.

Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.