You can't marry boys and expect them to be men - and you can't massage them into being men.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

To answer your question, you want me because I'm made of awesome.

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.

I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold.

I forget sometimes that Im in the HBO stable because I am such a fan of so much of their programming. Like, The Wire is my favorite TV show of all time.

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

Met you as a stranger Took you as a friend Hope we meet in Heaven Where friendship never ends

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with the view of confiscating them and leaving the population defenseless.