I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.

As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.

Everything happens

In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

The aim of mathematics is to explain as much as possible in simple terms.

There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.