People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

Miracle: to love more with an irreparable heartache

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of the population reads. But I guess there are exceptions.

How you know where I'm at when you haven't been where I've been? Understand where I'm coming from?

Doubt is what allows a single gesture to have a heart.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans.

Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement

There is something endearing about the weatherman.