Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one said motherhood was going to be easy.

There's nothing inherently interesting about being a drunk -- in fact, quite the contrary.

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to manifest your dream life!

That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly.

She did not begin to tell real lies until Rosa was in hospital suffering that filthy rot that left her all eaten out inside, as light and fragile as a pine log infested with white ant

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

For me, love carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Shakespeare will never be made by the study of Shakespeare.

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason Bringing something we must learn And we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.