Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

The biggest, toughest competition in the future will be the battle for your time and attention. Your one thing — your call to adventure — is your best tool in that battle.

I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

Having a gun in your hand is very empowering.

The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.

The industry's not stupid. The industry knows that if those foods are labeled "genetically engineered," the public will shy away and won't take them.

First day of school, make sure that you know your locker combination.

It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.

I love having time to prepare my lines and more time off.

Everything starts with a lie and ends with an apology.