She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.

Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.

The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

We believe world peace is inevitable.

The fear of loss . . . it can destroy you as much as the loss itself.

Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.

A little work, a little play, To keep us going - and so, good-day!

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!

You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.