I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

People think they have the right to judge everything that I do.

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.

God Himself is the power that makes prayer work.

Parts win prizes, not actors.

In war, the chief incalculable is the human will.

Don't stay in a bad situation - whether it is a relationship or a job - out of fear of failure. It's not a failure to walk away and choose to be happy. It takes a lot of courage.

You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

You can then further enhance the process of writing by forming the clear intention that your Higher Self will influence your writing.

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

I don't have to be enemies with someone to be competitors with them.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.