Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

If you really want to see change, and have change, you're going to have to get involved.

I believe in the great spirit and intelligence of Americans.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.

I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.

BlackBerrys are a wonderful tool. I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids, as they are with me.

Toni, you bring me luck. I'm gonna wear you like a charm.

Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.

Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

If we're going to have debates, let's have real debates.

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic and the drab seems too narrow.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

Peter Pan is perhaps the most important thing, to me, that I have ever done in theater.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

That which you believe becomes your world