Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems or keep repeating them over and over.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

Do you know my dream? I really want to become an aluminum-siding salesman.

Once we're inside a tune, we can do anything with it.

Acting is not my language at all.

In the future we'll all have 15 minutes of fame and 15 minutes of healthcare.