The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

Musically, he was like an old man in a boy's skin.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

Left right left right. We're army ants. We swarm we fight. We have no home. We roam. We race. You're lucky if we miss your place.

I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

The bow too tensely strung is easily broken.