Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

I don't want Christmas season to end, because it's the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

We all think we have time, you know. It's this miracle substance and there seems to be so much of it, and then all of a sudden, it's gone.

Dogs are high on life. Cats need catnip.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

There's nothing I like more than meeting velvet clad peers while wrapped in a towel.

In case there is any question in your mind," he said, cupping her face with his hands. "What I want, what I most desire, the loveliest sight on this dark earth, is you.

Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.

Dogs do tricks. Cats play tricks.

Cats always land on their feet. Dogs don't.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

I think when you look at religion, you look at where Christianity came from. You know, my mom delved deeper into that. And she felt a deep connection.