Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

Jobs that cannot be delivered must never be promised. It's unfair to raise people's hopes that way.

One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.

Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

Life is a choice... it's a choice to be successful.

They must needs go whom the Devil drives.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.