I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

I walk around with a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen all the time.

With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor

I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

Leadership is not always about your power, it's all about your ability to empower, encourage, and elevate others

Brilliance some are born with it, but others create it over time. It lightens the foulest of hearts and pierces the darkest of nights to lead us on the right path of our future destinies.

The future can never lie about the past. In the end, you will see the beginning.

When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.

If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

You have a power of incalculable value. You need ask nothing of anyone. You need depend on no one. You are free, and that freedom is a gift.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.