It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

There is an ability to move and transform things. I think each human being has that power, and it's often one that we are willing to relinquish to others.

If the ability to tell right from wrong should have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to 'demand' its exercise in every sane person no matter how erudite or ignorant.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.

The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

I know people are fickle.