A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

With growth comes change.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

What surfaced was the surprising power of our cultural heritage.

As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong.

The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.

I've learned the hard way how valuable privacy is. And I've learned that there are a lot of things in your life that really benefit from being private. And relationships are one of them.

When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

Every time you go to a party and take a picture and post that picture to Facebook, you're being a rat. You're being a narc.

Be careful of men who are bald and rich; the arrogance of "rich" usually cancels out the nice of "bald".

Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.