I started writing stories as a child.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.

Love is the seed of all hope. It is the enticement to trust, to risk, to try, to go on.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.