The records of adopted children are sealed in California. That seal is considered inviolable... The judge ruled that, because I was famous, he didn't have the same rights as other kids.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

This is the typical fallacy on which all of CONSUMER AMERICA is based. Some piece of useless crap will make people like you.

Your success should create a path that inspires others to follow.

It is much easier to focus on what you like than on what you dislike.

Reality is such an elusive concept.

drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves

Every potter praises his own pot.

[My father] had spent his own short time like a priest in charge of a relic, forever expecting the blessed blood to liquefy.

Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.