If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

Just because it's old, doesn't mean it's gold.

In the Conservative view you have 10 premiers and the Prime Minister as a kind of head waiter to take their orders.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

I'm just a simple country girl.

Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers.

But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

Something happens when your subconscious goes to work... That's why 'Sleep on it' is an adage.

I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

We are all worms. However, I like to think I'm a glow worm