All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.

Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.

TV requires a lot more patience. No one's ever like, 'I gotta get up at 5 A.M. and write my stand-up!' It's an easy life. With 'Silicon Valley, ' it's long hours and very unglamorous.

I think always as an actor. I go in knowing how I'm going to play it. That's about it.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

The restaurant industry is brutal.

The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

Truly, we have much to thank God for, but if we would be thankful, we must set our hearts to do it with a will. We grumble and complain without thought, but we must think to give thanks.

What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you

The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.