The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution.
You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.
Anyone who ever wondered how much they could love a child who did not spring from their own loins, know this: it is the same. The feeling of love is so profound, it's incredible and surprising.
My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.
You're never too fat for a new purse.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Sometimes the first draft will come out at 200 pages. I think and think and I go, "um this story is about the brother that appears on page 178. " I go back and I rewrite.
If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.
Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.
Let me just say, as a fellow chick, her hair looked fabulous this morning.
It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.