I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there.

My sheets are monogrammed, so is my silverware and pretty much everything else I own. My rule is, if it's not moving -- monogram it!

We’re more than just our dresses.

It's funny that it all becomes about clothes. It's bizarre. You work your butt off and then you win an award and it's all about your dress. You can't get away from it.

I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.

Confidence is everything in this business.

As an artist, I feel more strongly than ever that my job on earth is to tell the stories of the invisibles, and women have been invisible on film for a long time.

My rule is, if it's not moving-monogram it!

If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.~Piper - 'Breathe Me

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

To plant and maintain a flower border, with a good scheme for colour, is by no means the easy thing that is commonly supposed.

Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go.

I want to build some thing permanent.

I do think there's a lot more we can do on the life agenda.

Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.