If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.

Beauty is not just physical.

After being in the studio, I realized this is how I want to be. It just feels right.

Art class was my thing, but not any other class.

If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.

If it's easier to be emptier but lighter?

I try to separate my personal life from swimming.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.