My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

But even then I knew it wasn’t me that saved her life. It wasn’t about me. I was just there while she was maybe going to die and maybe not, and then she just didn’t.

Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

People need their history like they need air and food.

Do not allow doubt to distract you if only you will install in the altar of your heart steady faith in My Divinity, you can win a vision of My Reality.

We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.