As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

You will miss a normal life while living a successful life, but not as much as the craving for a successful life while you were living a normal life.

The man was married to a half-fae, half-human woman, a banshee, who'd' just delivered twins. It was a wonder his hair wasn't completely prematurely white.

And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret—to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.

Give freely, love fully, and play with fervor! Don’t put so many conditioned rules on your happiness. Life can be a beautiful experience if we allow it.

The willingness to become the answer to the needs of other people is what makes a person really successful

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song.

I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.