I don't think that I'm that easy to live with. I have to be reminded that I can have fun. I need my family to remind me in a loving and nice way to lighten up.

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

It's such an amazing thing to be loved for who you are.

When you connect with a cause, it's like falling in love.

Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

I want to start a trend of women as we really look. Some good things, some not so good. I am tired of looking at frozen faces.

A good marriage is different to a happy marriage.

The older you get, the more you've done.

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent.

I don't think it is worth trying to look 10 years younger through surgery.

The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter.

It is so dam difficult to be simple.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?

I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Let the inner ear listen to the voice of truth that is always speaking.

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

All breathing beings are spiritual; this includes everyone who breathes, whether they are animals or humans, carnivores or vegetarians.

You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say what's on my mind, it's probably not going to be good.