There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.

Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

Everybody sells something to somebody every day, whether it’s a product, a service or just a case of making sure that they get their own way.

The gulf between their world and hers had manifested itself, however much they'd meditated on how to ball her, and remained.

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

We know now that government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

If your book is set in the plantation days of the slave-owning South and you write a little romance between two slave owners without acknowledging the system they live, that's a political gesture.

Christianity alone teaches that our only way for reconciliation with God is by his grace that is received through faith.

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.