Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.

In many ways we are all sons and daughters of ancient Greece.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

You're never too fat for a new purse.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

The man may be the head of the household. But the woman is the neck, and she can turn the head whichever way she pleases.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

Black Creek Burning: “It was a polite, white lie, ” Brie whispered. “I’ll have to remember you think that way, ” Nathan said.

I am not a number

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

Illusions are shadows moving endlessly across the ground. The shadows are quite real but they're shadows. They have very little substance.

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

The East contemplated the forest the West counted the trees...the mind that knows that trees and the forest is a new mind.

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

I quit driving, I'm not retired.