I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

Often doors of opportunity are opened, but few opt to walk through them.

You should never go on diet and must follow a healthy lifestyle.

I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding.

The world is an inherently unfair place.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

That, which has not its alternation of rest, will not last long.