I'm a big hit at parties. Friends ask me to sing B-I-N-G-O all the time. I'm thinking, you know, of maybe putting out a Christmas album or something.

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

The dream provides inspiration and motivation. The goal generates drive and momentum. But daily effort on the details is the fuel that gets you to your dream.

I clench my teeth as tears come. I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them. ~ 'Tris

Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind.

Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.

All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion.

Don't look for someone who will solve all your problems; look for someone who will face them with you.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

Life is to live it, not to let it live you.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.