People say 'teenage girls aren't so clever. Your characters should be less articulate to reflect our youth.' People who say that aren't spending time with teenagers.

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

I am a firm believer that when a person makes mistakes or fails to see the bigger picture, God will remove opportunities from before them.

The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body

The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.

I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.

If my life was a song the title would probably be 'Clumsy', 'cause I'm clumsy.

A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.