I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.

It is time to stop standing at the edges of rooms. Hugging the walls. Living in my head. Wishing I had something to say.

Being a mother brings us face-to-face with ourselves as children, with our mothers as human beings, with our darkest fears of who we really are.

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper.

It's normal for us to become unhappy for a while due to how circumstances in life treat us, but it is ungodly for us to be ungrateful for these circumstances that make us unhappy!

It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

If people talk behind your back, it's because you're ahead of them.