I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

Life goes on... with or without you.

Having an achievement mindset is your competitive advantage

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

E-mail importance is defined by the receiver, not the sender.

I don't have to ask you where you've been, cause the matches in your purse say Holiday Inn.

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

Immigrants are more fertile, and they love families, and they have more intact families, and they bring a younger population. Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity.

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.