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.

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.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

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.

If you don’t know your destination, how will you get there?

We have a lot of thoughts throughout our entire life, but ultimately we get all to the conclusion of a single thought: Death!

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.