I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all these chases getting home, and people camping out on our property to get pictures.

I never had that star aura.

Life NEVER slows down.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

I never had that reputation of being not accessible.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

I take the only desire one can really permit oneself. Freedom, Alvah, freedom.”“You call that freedom?”“To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

A big part of my job is to remember failure, and reboot failure, when the timing is right.

The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.