As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Skating is big in Chicago. There's a lot of hockey; a lot of the boys play hockey. And figure skating is big.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

I think that everything's hard now anyways, so you might as well do stuff that you love and believe in.

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

It's important to being a healthy person. So while you're here on the earth, you might as well enjoy it. And it's hard to enjoy things when you're crazy.

Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them in fact the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.

Every local church has a leader but it seems so few local churches are being led.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

I don't like showing my privacy online.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people.

The Shriver Report presents an accurate and detailed portrait of American women and families at this transformational moment in our history.

Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool.

A publisher is simply a useful middle-man.