I am such a scaredy-cat.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they’d told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt’s complete absence. They have forgotten.

If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.

He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]

Decent people are so easy to manipulate, Potter.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

I am not for women but against men.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.