I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.

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.

Perhaps the most tragic way that self-deception harms us is that we start believing our lies and we teach them to others.

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

Hopefully people will be inspired to cook. It's my mission to persuade people not to be afraid of cooking.

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Keep in mind, just because you don’t know the answer doesn’t mean that one does not exist. You simply haven’t discovered it yet.

I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

A young man of pleasure is a man of pains.

The one who sings, prays twice.

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.