For 50 percent of Americans marriage is forever, for the rest of us there is another adventure.

I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family.

The secret of living a full life is to be fully engaged, moment to moment, to have something in your life that engages you so that there's nothing missing.

If people are watching television by themselves, it makes them part of a community of people laughing.

I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

I love writing. I've always written journals. I loved writing the book on living alone.

Be focused on what God has called you to do

In suffering, we trust the Saviour to be our strength.

I like a girl who laughs a lot. That's my main thing.

It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of. . . . It's essential that you . . . [do] things you can respect and admire.

Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.

That which is cannot be true.

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.

I believe that God is love. I believe that Jesus came to show us this love, to give us this love, to teach us about this love, so that we could live in this love and extend it to others.

By the way, Japan is also known to be actively engaged in manned space flights as part of the International Space Station.