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.

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.

My favorite body part? My feet.They're not pretty but they get me where I want to go.

People have a courage to die, but don't have a courage to live.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent's handshake.

The things that you know intellectually when you're young become internalized as you get older. You realize all those clichés.

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

You think you're the only one?" Theo said. "Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.