There have been days when I sought respite from my life, only to find myself calling every hour to check on it.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.

I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

God, living is enormous!

Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.