To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the first movie that made me focus on writing instead of what happens in the movie.

When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.

Death is the dance of Life.

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

There is no excuse for these 1,152 page textbooks.

Our poverty will be brought home to us to its full extent only after the war.

One should never spurn a penitent criminal: in his despair he may become twice as much a criminal as before.

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.