I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

Everybody has their challenges; I couldnt say that we have more challenges than other people, theyre just different.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.

Don’t you think it’s a bad sign that your best argument for your beau is that nothing has been proved in court?

Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

I've never made an outline for any novel that I've written. Never.

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods!

Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.

Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity.

Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.