Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

All the failures in my life freed me from all my fears so that I can succeed.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

What is valuable is not new and what is new is not valuable.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Newspapers are the second hand of history.

There's nothing better than cake but more cake.

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

Even in my dreams of being an actor, my dream was not in the celebrity. My dream was in the work that I wanted to do.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

I was a coward on instinct.