When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.

I am a haystack in a needle of time.

We may draw good outof evil we must not do evil that good may come.

A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke!

To have a successful marriage, a man must, on a fundamental level be scared shitless of his wife.

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, 'in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.'

Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

A brotherhood of venerable trees.