There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

No matter how far away we are from each other in distance, or in time, when we look up into the clear night Sky. We will always see the same Moon.

Call it a clan call it a network call it a tribe call it a family: Whatever you call it whoever you are you need one.

She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet was the night Softer than satin was the light From the stars She wore blue velvet Bluer than velvet were her eyes Warmer than May her tender sighs

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

Let us not demean or belittle. Rather, let us be compassionate and encouraging.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

A very honest woman but something given to lie