I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

Sometimes we want what we want even if we know it’s going to kill us.

In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'

I thought that young people had more problems than old people...Then I looked around and saw that everybody who looked young had young problems and that everybody who looked old had old problems.

Every book has mistakes in them, every one. There's never been a book published without mistakes.

Whitewashing the pump won't make the water pure.

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

The United States did not sign Kyoto, yet its emissions are not that different from the countries that did sign it.

Younger people are generally more adventurous - they're more open, more fun - have you met many guys my age? Guys my age are married or divorced or grumpy, fat and balding.

To elevate abstract doctrines and dogmas over living, breathing, embodied experiences of God's love and grace, then, is going the wrong direction. It's taking flesh and turning it back into words.

I think people who love each other and live together and have children together need to agree on the things that are most important in life.