When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

Humor is very healing.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

And she is the readerwho browses the shelfand looks for new worldsbut finds herself.

I don't know which is stronger: the thrill of winning or the fear of failure. I don't know which one affects me most. I don't know where the middle is.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.