“You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now.”

Let life unfold, say what you mean.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat.

Food is so important – it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun.

Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

They only go after what they know they can get.

Motherhood changes everything.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I’m always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses.

Taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

I’ve learned one important lesson in my life, and I’m going to share it with you.

I’m very organized – and the best thing – when you love your work.

You don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.

The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

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

The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else,

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

Now it’s just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, ‘What are you doing for your country?’ you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

We have to assume now that all mission is cross-cultural.

We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.

Review our priorities, ask the question; what’s the best use of our time right now?

A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

Everyone’s a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse.

The time for common-sense immigration reform is now,