The people I work with are like family. I don't mean this in a nice way.

Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.

My longing to improve my looks via The Body Shop is being replaced by my longing to improve my looks via Photoshop.

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.

Envy is what makes you, when an acquaintance is lustily telling you that she's dating a Greek god of a guy, ask, 'Which one, Hades?'

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

Truth is like nuclear waste: it needs to be dealt with carefully. Sometimes it needs to be buried way, way out of town. And sometimes it should never be uncovered at all.

Don’t always trust what you see. In a bull market even a duck looks like a swan.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself.

Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.

Don't run from your pain — run into your pain.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.

The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.