People who can make you laugh can make you cry.

Falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!

I'm a Gucci girl all the way.

If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.

The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.

I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I definitely do walk with it every day in my heart.

There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!

The most rewarding part of writing for TV is - a year ago I would have said it's just watching it on TV, it's just having been done with it and then collecting all that energy.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

Without the piano my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

What's worse? Being strung out or being fat?

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

I want to tell stories, I don't really try to get boxed in by a specific genre.