I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

The bump of ego on his skull had swollen large, so he saw the whole world in terms of what it could give him.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!