Families are ecosystems. Each life grows in response to the lives around it

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

This is what happens when an outlaw kidnaps a scholar of myths and legends.

A free and prosperous society has no fear of anyone entering it. But a welfare state is scared to death of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

Music washes away the dust of every day life.

Some newspapers have a hands-off policy on favored politicians. But it's generally very small newspapers or local TV stations.

Mission means inviting all the peoples of the earth to hear the music of God's future and dance to it today.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

I'm from the bottom, I understand what it's like to have and to not have. My perception on giving is to put yourself in those people's shoes and go from there. So that's what I did.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"