I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

You just get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and go. You know, each day is different.

Dont ever lose hope. Even when life seems bleak and hopeless, know that you are not alone.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

With Alzheimer's patients, you have to be very careful what you say when you're looking at them over their bed. Because once in a while, they understand it.

My life really began when I married my husband.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.

Relax. Nothing is under control.

The incessant driving of the pen over paper causes intense fatigue of the hand and the whole arm because of the continuous ... strain on the muscles and tendons.

I do love being in my studio. Especially at night.

A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.

It's always a unique challenge when you're working with somebody where English is their second language.

The mother tongue is propaganda.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind