The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Habits form a second nature.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America.

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.

It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.