It's important to have the diversity of thought and approach that comes with being a woman.

Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

There is nothing more important than hard work.

A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.

No one is climbing the spiritual ladder. We don't continually improve until we are so spiritual we no longer need God. We die and are made new, but that's different from spiritual self-improvement.

What's the difference in wanting someone you don't like to vanish and dreaming about a world in which they don't exist? They're just two ways of saying the same thing.

Democracy is even more important for what it prevents than for what it provides.

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road

Everybody in the states is so relaxed, and everybody in Japan is so uptight.

The best mother is the mother who adapts, and the best children are the children who adapt as well.

Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no.

Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.

Love that cares, listens.