My first husband was a serial cheater.

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it's so traumatizing for everybody.

Writers are magpies, and we collect details about people and we use them for fictional characters.

I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him.

Do what you love. Live fearlessly and take risks. Don't take no for an answer from anyone - go ahead and prove the naysayers wrong. Believe that anything can be possible.

I always think that in a big city, anything is possible, including reinventing yourself.

Everyone thinks that a new place or a new identity will jumpstart a new life.

I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.

Never be with anyone you couldn't imagine yourself being able to live without.

People love stories. They need stories.

Diligence without intelligence is tragedy, not success.

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

They whooped our tail last time we was here. So it's time for a little revenge, and show that Florida football is coming back.

Two Drink Mike enjoys dancing and knows a magic trick. Whereas, No Drink Mike enjoys biographies, and has serious opinions on wildlife. And Five Drink Mike... dances with wildlife.

We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.

I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.