Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

Honor, ' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Unfortunately, people don’t know how they are created and live making grave mistakes, losing their peace, destroying their mentality and failing to fulfill their callings

A positive MIND is a solid WEAPON.

People buy products for what they can do, not for what they are.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what subjects it should address.

Live to please the others, and everyone will love you, except yourself.

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.