It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

Baltimore is a great place.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door!

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make.

When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

My analyst refused to hear my dreams. This was years ago.

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Be a wonderful role model because you will be the window through which many children will see their future.