There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

Because the thing about love is that we can't control whether we get it, but we can control whether we give it.

I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.

If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?

Any middle-aged woman knows that our feet are not for the faint of heart, especially in midwinter. I wear clogs, so it's actually like my feet are wooden now.

It's the Snickers bars. Snickers equal romance.

Even if it's not what you planned, you can make a life for yourself on your own and be happy.

The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing.

I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.

People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.

So that’s it? You’re just going to rescue me and go?

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.

I need a little sugar in my bowl and a little hot dog in my roll.

The best method of overcoming obstacles is the team method

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

In education, as in religion and love, compulsion thwarts the purpose for which it is employed.

You know, it's a long world.

Forgiving presupposes remembering.

Just my luck, on top of everything else I had to take baboon medicine.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?