our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it starts to feel like everything.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

There is a love that binds us allIt's in our blood, it's who we areand it's nested in the branches of this treeand it's rooted in the Earth where we keepall of our stories

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."

If I depended on the critics' judgment and recognition, I'd never have gone into the motion-picture business.

Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.