Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

Sometimes love not only lifts you to the ceiling, it also keeps your eyes there.

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

Think good for yourself, good will follow you.when you think good for others, happiness will follow you and when happiness follows you, people will follow you.

If you don't know the person personally, then don't take it personally.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

Not hero worship, but intimacy with Christ.

I believe we have breaks because we need them. So my suggestion is that you take the break. Eat chocolate.

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Acting is not my language at all.