I love my husband more than I love my children.

If you focus all of your emotional passion on your children and you neglect the relationship that brought that family into existence... eventually, things can go really, really wrong.

Courage is impulsive; it is narcissism tempered with nihilism.

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Roaring like a tiger turns some children into pianists who debut at Carnegie Hall but only crushes others. Coddling gives some the excuse to fail and others the chance to succeed.

You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.

In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

For a couple of months there I was shrieking like a banshee.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Markets cannot meet the needs of the very poor. The desperately poor are not consumers who will create an immediate profit.

The art of cooking is among the most intimate things that we can do for another.

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.

Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.

The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.

We need to replace hyperbole with a reasonable, informed discussion about how to reinvent the federal budget with more transparency and better accountability.

Entrepreneurs don't finish when we are tired. We finish when we are done.

Great leaders give everyone something to believe in, not something to do.

I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.