I think I'd be in an entirely different business if it were easy.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

A heart, once stolen, can never be taken back.

Humanity reveals her inner beauty through the interplay of gratitude, love, and kindness.

Let the fools hold on to their treasured stupidityLet yourself be safe in wisdom with much rapidity

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

Each pain is Unbearable / yet TriflingSeeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet ExquisiteThrough Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

Life is impoverished, it loses in interest, when the highest stake in the game of living, life itself, may not be risked. It becomes as shallow and empty as, let us say, an American flirtation.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

[Gordon Ramsay] knows about being bullied, because look at the size of him.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

Death and worse happened on the plains.