I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

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

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.

My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.

It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed, ' my father said softly.

There is a point where the universe can deliver you from the verge of regret. I know your love for me will take you there.

The act of reading will enrich your life.Become a lifelong learner and a reader.

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

The way money goes so fast these days, they should paint racing stripes on it.

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.