Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society.

There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

Sometimes it is good to breach the rulesso as to achieve an end, Yet keep an edge and not break or bend.

My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

Having talent is like having blue eyes. You don't admire a man for the colour of his eyes. I admire a man for what he does with his talent.

Now flip, flop, and fly, I don't care if I die.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice, it's an investment.

In the end we just realize there's no end. It just goes on forever, in countlessly new forms. That's what's wonderful about the universe there's no escape from living. Death doesn't even end it.

I have choices," I insisted, refusing to break eye contact. "We both do. I may have to make mine carefully, and make a few compromises along the way, but I have a choice. I choose you.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.