It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most and the true "gift" in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

The future is certain. It is just not known.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

Condole - to show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy.

The true leader is always led.

I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor.

It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.