It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.

I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless of denomination. I believe that Jesus is the way.

Every 36 seconds in America a woman lays her body down forced to choose abortion out of a lack of practical resources and emotional support. Abortion is a reflection that society has failed women.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that to other people.

In reality, most women 'choose' abortion because they believe they have no other choice.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.

When you don't have the words to say He hears your heart. When you feel like no one understands He carries your pain. When hope seems lost God whispers "Joy is coming.

I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

The American Public is who I'm interested in. Ultimately, if they think I'm good and they think I'm entertaining that's all that matters.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder - and turn quickly to my typewriter.

There is nothing of any consequence in education, in the economy, in city planning, in social policy that does not concern black people.

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.