As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.

I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.

The universe is infinite, and the experiences and opportunities available to us are likewise.

I'm not really a blockbuster, I'm not a member of that audience really.

The best of humanity is philosophy.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.

I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

Whatever happened to preparations A through G?

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.