When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.

I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.

Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

There can be no lasting peace, no security, nor can we as human beings begin to touch our full potential, as long as hunger overwhelms the human spirit around this planet.

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Sabbath were a hippy band. We were into peace.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Without Ukraine, Russia's imperial aspirations are essentially nostalgia, but it's not a real policy.