I'm excited by challenging myself physically and mentally every day.

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

Women are hard on themselves. I’m trying to stop focusing on my flaws and appreciate what I love about my body.

I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.

I can be quite serious sometimes so laughing is key.

I think it's important to be with a guy who has a strong sense of integrity. That's how I was raised, and that's something I look for.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

I'm exhausted almost all the time.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

The choice is to listen to the chaos your mind creates or the intuitive wisdom from the heart.

What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.

To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing.

To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant