I wonder which of the megaton bombs Jesus, our President's personal savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad?

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

Writing is a bit like going on a diet

You discover your voice. You matter. Maybe not to the world, yet. You matter to yourself. You're worthy.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.

Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

I always get a kick out of who is going to be the larger cheering section.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.