There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'

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.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

To err his human, to stroll is Parisian.

I try to not eat as much sugar, but it's so hard in our American diet to do that... It's hard to completely avoid.

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

As you step out of college, you will be spending the rest of your life in a world of accelerated disruption.

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.

Covenants without swords are but words.