Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life.

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

I was influenced by my children's education in Quaker schools in the Philadelphia area. I experienced a spiritual awakening and became a Christian, was baptized, and joined a church.

I am in an altogether new world now. I can think of nothing more wonderful. It is a real touch of all that heaven means.

We all want to feel like the most beautiful woman in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.

Winning is not a matter of acceptance but a term of dedication with an interest to achieve.

Today well lived will prepare me for both the pleasure and the pain of tomorrow.

We have to consider who is going to be the best prime minister to take on a "one nation" agenda.

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

I have a list in my mind and in my heart of actors who have been extraordinarily kind, and Hugh Laurie is near the top.