Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Your children need your presence more than your presents.