One of my first paid gigs was writing psychology quizzes for 'YM, ' a monthly teen magazine like 'Seventeen.'

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Take no moment for granted.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves himself.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Applicants for wisdom do what I have done: inquire within

I'm a woman with a mission. I've learned to believe in myself, my vision and to do things the way I want them done.

Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.

Americans know very little about social statistics, but I am not sure that it's important that Americans know about social statistics.

To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.