You can't get work without working.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

I have to convince myself every night that I love you before I go to sleep lest I wake up empty.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy

Girls, where are you? I can't find you.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

Politicians and journalists share the same fate in that they often understand tomorrow the things they talk about today.

Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.

The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?