What is a mom but the sunshine of our days and the north star of our nights.
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on.
Don't say giddy-up to your mouth before your head is hitched up.
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself. . . I never have; I never will.
I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.
We are living in the blessing of that moment.
The one flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.
Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.
We want this - and I - we hope that right when they come back, that the Congress passes the Lilly Ledbetter Act which would correct the Supreme Court decision that was just recent that essentially guts wage discrimination law. It's been in place for years. It was gutted by this Roberts Court. We want it to be reversed by legislation. We hope that Congress passes it and that is on the desk for [Barack] Obama to sign as one of his first acts once he's sworn in. So it - I could go on, we have quite a well-developed list.
Instead of our petulant, fretful, irritable human hastiness we should cultivate in our souls the patience which has learned to wait on God.
I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.