Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person be generous of spirit be the person you'd admire.

It takes an artist…. to be an artist

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stuff I like to do that makes you giggle inside.

I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.

Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another.

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

The Tea Party movement as I perceive it is all about recognizing the difference between state and federal powers. And that there are limits to federal power that need to be respected.

Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

It is possible to be clean in a dirty world.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.