You know you're officially an adult when you finally understand WHY Miss Hannigan was drinking bath water.

It's okay to fail. It does not make you forever a failure. In fact, there are no failures really. Only human beings doing the best they can.

I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.

When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British accent is involved. Dahling!

I want everyday magic.

If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.

Walking the Camino de Santiago taught me the wonders of physical challenge, the wonders of spiritual freedom, and the wonders of baby powder.

The night before a deadline, I usually am in desperate need of a back rub. And new wrists. And candy. And little mice to secretly finish the job while I am sleeping.

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!

Each night, I close my eyes and dream. In the morning, I open my eyes again, but the dreaming doesn't stop.

Sometimes I dream so vividly, so expectantly, I wonder if I'm crazy...

We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.

She is an incredibly intelligent idiot

The circumstances of others seem good to us while ours seem good to others.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.

I do like change. That's the one thing exciting about me.

Nothing reduces the odds against you like ignoring them.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.