I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

The greatest joy you can get is from giving, and the best thing that you can give is your love.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in?

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

God does not need our money. But you and I need the experience of giving it

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.

Writing is an incredibly lonely job.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve