When something's got to give, family always wins. I couldn't live with myself if it was the other way.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

Everybody has their challenges; I couldnt say that we have more challenges than other people, theyre just different.

My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.

I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.

I'm a bit of a homebody. It doesn't take long for me to get to the point where I'm ready to be home again.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

I'm very grounded - that's how I would put it. If you met my mother, you'd probably say the same thing about her. I had a very sane upbringing, though some very insane things happened.

I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me.

If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C.

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.

The metric system was designed to get people to enter charity runs.Do you think you would go run a 3.1 mile race? No, but if somebody says, hey, 5 km. You go, 5km sounds pretty impressive.

O Christian, never be proud of things that are so transient, injurious, and uncertain as the riches of this evil world! But set your heart on the true and durable riches of grace in Christ Jesus.

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.