I love books that rhyme. And I love books that are clever and have little lines in them that are meant to amuse the parents who will no doubt be reading the book over and over and over again.

When I was in college, there were a couple years there where I was just not sure what to do, and it was actually my mom who suggested I take some journalism classes.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

I would never put my job before my family.

I never have any clothes to go out in, because I always just buy for work. I don't know why. Habit.

My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now. Sweeter...

One of the things I love about New York is that it's one of the only places where you could have an entire restaurant dedicated to macaroni and cheese.

I should get a manicure more often.

The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity.

In order every one in our homeland learns principles of democracy and the peaceful transition of power, and in order to stabilize and develop multiple choices in democratic practice.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

I'm not on a diet. And it's funny cause people go 'Well, then why do you drink diet soda?' So I can eat regular cake.

We invent the past and remember the future.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Work won't do me any good ... I've tried it, and it bored me worse than the other thing.

I won't ask you if you ever received flowers from a man before. But it was my first, gifting flowers to a woman.

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.