My first celebrity crush was Jonathan Brandis. I even got to talk to him on the phone. I wrote a fan letter, and he answered. Talk about a surreal experience.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.

Love doesn't need to be perfect. It just needs to be true.

You can undo a lot of things. If you're not happy, you can become happy. Happiness is a choice. That's the thing I really feel.

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The secret to happiness is short-term, stupid self-interest!

I didn't think it was going to be this fun. But everything just gets heightened when you have a baby. The volume gets turned up on life. I never knew I could be this happy, and that's the truth.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

God's solution is a prayer away!

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.