I am very tenacious.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

We're about moderation.

I am very tenacious.

Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.

I don't believe in fad diets.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

My life revolves around my child's routine.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

A deep cynicism is taking hold of the country, with more and more Americans convinced that big money calls the shots in Washington and that there is nothing that can be done about it. We must resist that conclusion and fight back on behalf of everyday citizens. Reform is possible, and it is imperative.

I've had a lot of really influential people in my life, like my grandmother M. J., who have helped me along the way. But there are so many of us girls in my family, and even though they're all so open and honest, who I seek advice from depends on what aspect of life I'm dealing with.

My great crime in the world is blunder I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive.

The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

Outside of family, writing is essential. To me, it's like breathing.

It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

Nothing makes a man more invincible than to "know" that death is not the end.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

There are so many music genres competing against each other, but I feel like country music has always been a unified front.

Autumn casts a spell and dying never was so beautiful.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.

I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

I prefer working behind the camera.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else - even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that's probably the writer that I've thought about the most, even though I don't necessarily like a lot of his work.

Truly great friends are hard to find difficult to leave and impossible to forget.

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.