Being with my family is my highest priority.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

first of all nothing will happen and a little laternothing will happen again

Why certainly, words possess power.  They do!  But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.

I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.

I don't believe in luck. There are things that you have to work hard for.