Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Good relationships depend upon recognizing that we are the source of our problems.

Be a candle of light in someone’s life this holy season.

I write because it's a beautiful habit

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

There are some brilliant designers but their clothes only really suit 6 foot 20-year-olds.

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven.

The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.