I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

On Jesus: "Everyone around me was flat-out in love with him, and who wouldn't be? He was good with animals, he loved his mother, and he wasn't afraid of blind people.

Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard.

Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising.

My hair looks like it had been purchased at a rummage sale after all the real hair was gone.

But I think that what you'll discover more and more as you get older is that most people aren't thinking about you at all.

My favorite was Love Is...Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.

Decoupage hit Mooreland pretty hard...

Parenting is a giant responsibility forever, so we need to learn how to drop the guilt and go easy on ourselves when we mess up.

Why am I letting you comfort me?” He stared over her head. Because I’ve made sure you have no one else to turn to.

Well, sometimes home is a person.

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The champion makes his own luck.

The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box.

What we focus on we become. If you are just focusing on unhappy things, you will become unhappy. If you focus on happy states of mind, then it will grow in you.

I'm very free-spirited.

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.