I'm divorced and I've been to the circus and seen the clowns. This ain't my first rodeo.

I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Having worked as a labor and delivery nurse...I've seen ultrasounds...you know that those babies are real.

You only get to be a victim once. After that, you're a volunteer.

Slow down, simplify and be kind.

You're only a victim once. The next time you're an accomplice.

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

Unless a person actually hates sin, he will continue to practice it.

Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence!

Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

I truly believe a woman's weight is a political issue, and if one young woman out there can see me and not feel crummy about herself, that's a good thing.

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

There is an all-out assault now on the Christian community in this country.