I drink too much coffee.

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.

Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size.

Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

My administration will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests, but we will serve the citizens of the United States of America, believe me.

Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.

Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.