I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

I really like sort of disappearing.

So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

Purpose is a higher level of living, where you live more for others than you live for yourself.

The best thing to be in a city was anonymous. Failing that, however, notoriety would do.

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.