We are all tempted, Mma. We are all tempted when it comes to cake.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

How often are the perpetrators of hate-crimes discovered to be self-loathing? Valued individuals do not strike out against strangers.

Well chosen words mixed with measured emotions is the basis of affecting people.

It's God's will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It's God's will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

When I became a winner, I said, 'I figured it out, but if I'm wrong, I'm getting the hell out, because I want to save my money and go on to the next trade.'

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.