Be nice to your siblings. They are your link to the past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

Don’t waste you energy to compare your life with others.

In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities

The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger.

The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it’s soothing. A cool kiss