Before you're a mom you don't know what gear is going to be relevant.

To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day.

It's amazing what sleep does for your looks.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

180 episodes of 'CSI: Miami' and never the same lipstick twice!

I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

I always wear high heels.

If you live in a small space, you should do the things that make it feel luxurious.

The only important thing in this life is to figure out how to use the experiences that you have to make the world a better place.

Mama always did tell a good story, built a solid background, then deftly lead her engrossed listener through a series of doorways, enticing them in before delivering the coup de grâce.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners, no matter what our backgrounds, cultures, faiths and histories.

I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

I'm very impatient, so I was like, 'I want to be able to do whatever I want now.' But even the biggest stars - you look back and they weren't overnight.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

What we do with the things we have makes the biggest difference in the quality of life

Not perfection as a final goal, but the ever-enduring process of perfecting, maturing, refining is the aim of living.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

A leader who loses his connection to his people soon loses the ability to lead them.