I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

I love my babies so much that I could kiss them all day long..as a job. I could be a professional baby kisser. No joke.

I just saw a guy filling up his gas tank with one hand and smoking with the other. Seriously?

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

Listen, the obvious thing to remember is without dark, there is no light, and without light, there is no dark.

Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.

It’s not a guy and a girl, or a girl and a girl or a guy and a guy - it’s a relationship.

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

I'm very active when I'm not pregnant, but I think fitness should be a natural part of your life, not something you have to force yourself to do.

My husband always smells good to me.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

[P]ower is at its most potent when it can operate silently.

Ask for the godly way, travel its path.

I want you too, so much, ” she whispered. He murmured in her ear, “Then take me.

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.

I felt all the ways in which this world seemed so, so enormous--the height of the trees, the hush and tick of the forest, the shift of the sunlight and shadows--but also so, so removed.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.