I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Take no moment for granted.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

I love revisions…We can’t go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Each betrayal begins with trust.

Brave, impossible Alice. Stop being so sensible.

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

[When asked what was the inspiration for most of her work:] Need of money, dear.

We interact with others and we decide who we are. Are we reclusive? Are we outgoing? Are we successful? Are we going to be a failure? We cast a role for ourselves and we step into it.

Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?

Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.