I really enjoy making sure the kids get a healthy dinner, a good bath and several books... I really like to try and end the day with some quality time with my kids. If not, I feel guilty.

Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

You face challenges in your personal life and in your professional life. I continue to be relentlessly optimistic and not focus on the negative.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.

As a working mom, I struggle to find time to work out and go for runs. I usually run two to three times a week and work out with a trainer once a week. I try to go for a longer run on Sundays.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.

Honestly, I don’t know what I would recommend from this story. Perhaps it is this: if you have the choice to laugh or do nothing, you might as well laugh.

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

Make a change! It's all about you! You may not be able to prevent the bird from flying over your head

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I started rejecting the proper way to sing and I started singing.

Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.

I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.

Whose life is it, anyway?

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.