Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

The best way to bury your pain is to help others, and to lose yourself in that.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

You have to find a way to laugh a little bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simply run out of the joy that makes it go.

What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?

Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!

Apparently it takes, like, forty-seven muscles to frown. Flippin' the bird' s a hell of a lot easier.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or maybe they thought I'd find out that's what I didn't want to do.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

When you eat a lot of spicy food, you can lose your taste. When I was in India last summer, I was listening to a lot of Michael Bolton.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

Magic is not science, it is a collection of ways to do things ways that work but often we don't know why.

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences to light your pathway to the future.