You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.