[Rejection] made me quit writing once. For six months. I started up again when my then seven-year-old son asked me to start writing again because I was too grumpy when I wasn't writing.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Champions learn how to develop empowering beliefs and invest a substantial amount of time solidifying those beliefs, mostly through their own self-talk.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.

I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.

Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

Dancing and singing were always like games to me. I sang constantly.