It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.

Someone once threw me a small, brown, hairy kiwi fruit, and I threw a wastebasket over it until it was dead.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

By that which you kill are you bound.

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?

The more connected you are to the work, the better it is.

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

I can be very polite, but I've found that doesn't always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables.

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.