I like to repaint rooms, to redecorate. My dream would be to have pieds-à-terre in various places.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

stronger than mountains.a place where my heart feels the safest- underneath his shirt.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

The local church is the hope of the world.

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

God is our portion, Christ our companion, the Spirit our Comforter, Earth our lodge, and Heaven is our home.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

I love 'Saturday Night Live,' and it's such a funny show. I don't know if I'm funny enough to be on it but definitely would be interested in doing it.