"A resilient spirit knows that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."

"Wisdom principle 31 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 99."

"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."

"I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone."

"Well you know, I think a lot of us in marriage know that you play different roles at different times. And Mitt can get very intense, and I can have the ability to kind of talk him off the rails sometimes and say, 'Hey let's look at what is really important and let's do that now.'"

"The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach."

"The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much."