Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

The doll had an adult shaped body, the thing that I had been trying to describe for years, and our guys said it couldn't be done.

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

Television speeded everything up.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

I meet people and they become chapters in my stories.

He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed.

Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

An ethics of desire is good news for those of us who have become allergic to an ethics of law.

There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.

After all, God is God because he remembers.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.