Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

Even in death, my mother smiled—and she had every reason to do so, for I had become precisely what she hoped I would—her mirror image.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

People are subject to moods to temptations and fears lethargy and aberration and ignorance and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

The religions of the world must be assessed, not on the basis of their convoluted theologies, but in terms of the extent to which they serve as forces of liberation and empowerment.

A lot of times I'm traveling or have appointments, so I don't get to work out every day, but I try to get to the gym as much as I can.

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

No, really. I free you.' I don't want to be free.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.