There are still personalities that you bond with or a fighting spirit that you connect with, but as a host you have to stay impartial and root for all of them.

I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.

My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and they dyed my hair platinum - I hated it.

At night if I'm in a hurry, I'll just put on a lot of mascara and black pencil all the way around the inner rim. It's a totally sexy eye in a minute and a half.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

To help my muscles rebuild after I work out, I have a small serving of cottage cheese.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

I am so happy, so in love, and so content.

When you choose to overcome something that could paralyze people, you have the choice to either let that happen or use that as a stepping-stone to something new and different in the future.

OMG, I am a married woman!

I would borrow my mom's red Borghese lipstick and smear it on like a clown!

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.

I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well.

I thought it would be fun to take the kind of character that nobody would like, none of our readers would like, and shove him down their throats and make them like him.