See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet.

You're never too old to be young.

Worry is absence of faith.

Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.

Time passes, but memories linger.

And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.

The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.

I try to stay focused on my creativity.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

[Lily] "Petunia's hair is too curly to braid," She said conversationally. Oliver wasn't sure why, but that was what finally made him blush.

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.

Hillary Clinton is a dead fish when it comes to being entertaining and alive. Without a prompter and a written script, she's nothing.

There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.