I grew up playing in an alley on the south side of Milwaukee.

One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

We did talk about cheese on our first date.

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

Well, I love having kids. But I have the advantage of having a lot of help, a real hands-on husband and small children whom I can easily manipulate.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

Student teaching is the hardest job there is.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

Do not be afraid. Because if you let these fears consume you, you’ll most likely fail even before everything else starts.

No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

Health is wholeness and balance, an inner resilience that allows you to meet the demands of living without being overwhelmed.

The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good

There is comfort in routine.

It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself.

Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect? I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it.

I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.