If Shakespeare required a word and had not met it in civilized discourse, he unhesitatingly made it up.

I'm a mom first. That's all I really care about - being a good mom and a good wife. The writing always comes second for me.

I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

Resiliency, like a cartwheel, requires core strength and a disregard for gravity. Only one of which can be willed.

Belittling nostalgia is a frightened man's parlor trick. Be grateful for any prize. Even a paper fortress, albeit briefly, provides shelter from the rain.

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

Far more creativity, today, goes into marketing of products than into the products themselves

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy.

Cultivating your value proposition in life is the way to move forward. You are the raw material of your own destiny.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!" ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black

The familiar changes as we cling to it.

My admiration for the phenomenon of Alcoholics Anonymous is boundless.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.