I have achieved a certain amount of success, and I felt a responsibility to my daughter and to women in this world to create more opportunities for women.

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.

Past Present And Future Exist All At Once As Parallel Moments In Time.

If you are benefiting more than those you serve, you are no longer serving.

Ethics reform is about restoring the public trust. When that is in doubt, nothing is more important than restoring it.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.

There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café

O Priest! Take care lest what was said to Christ on the cross be said to you: He saved others, himself he cannot save!

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

It's been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come

America doesn't border on Muslim countries. European countries do and that seems to be a fundamental difference.