"Polly was pretty good at dieting, all right, but she was beginning to wonder whether you ever lost the parts of your self that you wanted to lose."

“It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled home, my parents thought I was making it up. However, when my brother and I fabricated a story about an encounter with a bear, they believed that! So maybe I learned very early on that fiction was more interesting to listeners!”

“There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook, peace of mind and inner happiness”

“His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.184

“It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.”

Source : Song: It's My Party

“World Peace Day is envisioned to become a moment of global unity - it is up to each and every one of us to make this a reality.”

“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”

“I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.”