There's an expression: Great is the enemy of the good. Sometimes in trying to be great, you make a mess of things.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

Baltimore is a great place.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

Confess your sins. God will cleanse you of all the wrongs done.

All I can think is that it must be a kind of rebellion, To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

Have some carrots. They're good for your eyes.""Then you have some fries. They're good for your... I don't know. They're just good.

The parent of every great and lasting decision is a thought. Therefore, contemplate deeply and thoroughly and then execute.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

Mathematics is not a language, it's an adventure

I want to be a superhero. Maybe I'll be a bartending superhero who shakes martinis to save the world.