I try not to be overly analytical.

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.

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.

The only thing Christianity can not be...is moderately important.

An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go.

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

This moment is timeless, yet it is always new.

I usually need a can of beer to prime me.

Women politicians take their job seriously and accomplish their duties diligently and sensitively. Only they can understand the problems of women and act as a sounding board for their concerns.