Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

You have to be tenacious, you have to be focused, you have to have a real vision, and be extremely passionate about it.

The secret to using power is not to use it. Just having it is enough.

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

Words that are spoken are not TRUE, Feelings alone speak the TRUTH.

It's SO much worse in high school! People talk about who's dating with such GRAVITY, like they're talking about wikileaks.

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history.

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

The only certainty is uncertainty

Remember, only what you give can God multiply back. If you give nothing, and even if God were to multiply it, it would still be nothing!

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.