Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV

Repeat after me: 'I am doing the best that I can.' That's the mantra I keep trying to tell myself, 'I'm doing the best I can.'

Honesty is probably the sexiest thing a man can give to a woman.

I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life

You just hope that you will get the opportunity to do what you love and pay your bills, and that is being a success as an actor.

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.

Life is not without pain and travail. They are necessary to new awareness which prompts growth.

Best to have only a few absolutely perfect trait - for example, my hair and eyes and sparkling personality - so you don't overwhelm.

If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.

Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.

The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible.

For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

I take that as an insult, even at 36.

God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner.