Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.