Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed.

Our English monarchs are so unimaginative,” said Eldric. “They execute people in such tediously conventional ways.

I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job.

I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.