I despise shopping and department stores.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

Legacy proves ones mettle and one's karma.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

Metaphors are an interesting example of creating magic in prose.

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

Richard Jenkins read the script [The Hollars] and really liked it, but he said, 'If you can get Margo Martindale, I'll do it. Otherwise, good luck.

It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

You only live once, for a very short time. So make every second divine.

If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.