The United States is one of the only holdouts, not changing to metric.

Im afraid of needles, except acupuncture needles.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

People who are considered scary or odd or even monsters are so often the people that just need love and someone to care for them.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

I think the success of my work stems from being truthful.

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.

If you know you're going to be outside, you have to be a little bit more in tune, so that you don't get distracted by what's going on and focus better.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious.