In strategic affairs, clarity and consistency are very important.

Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.

We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation.

I think it's part of Vladimir Putin's nature to define Russian success in foreign policy as thwarting the United States. That's in his nature. And that is very difficult to align with strategically.

A different direction defines what to me is real and to you is hooey.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Food is a lens for culture.

Everybody's funny in different ways.

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

I think of myself as a very lazy writer, though other people see it differently.

I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

I am what is around me.