When things go right, I read. When things go wrong, I read more.

The best blessing that you can give is your beautiful smile.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression.

God is faithful.God is merciful.

It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.

I'm the fussiest eater on earth; my husband despairs. I like chicken and pasta, and can't resist milk chocolate. I figure if you're going to do something naughty, make it really enjoyable.

More interesting than thinking about whats possible in 10 years is thinking whats possible now but that no one has built.

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others