Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

A book is like a vacation for the brain.

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.

There is so much want. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want, pooled in the shape of a girl named Cassia.

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Life disappoints. Everybody knows that. But must it horrify?

Well done, Sister," Blind Seer said. "I look forward to meeting this One above Ones. Now, you must make ready. I, of course, am already perfect.

Bacon bits are like the fairy dust of the food community.

Bring me a cup of tea and the 'Times.'