It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

I figure this is my time - to relax, be with my family and have a normal life.

I'm always inspired by people who raise the bar, whether in their field of work, parenthood, or giving back.

When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

We can start by living by the Spirit while we stop following the heart of discontentment and doubt.

Once you find love, you find it. There isn't an age on love.

My husband and my children inspire me on a daily basis to be the best wife, mom, and woman I can be.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I loved Frank [O'Connor], he was wonderful...just don't get on his bad side. I don't think I would have wanted to marry him, but I probably should have since I married idiots anyway.

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Here's where I ask why don't you spend your time doing something safer and more boring. Like maybe administering suppositories to rabid gorillas.

Bean, what's one step worse then a fashion don't?....a fashion don't even THINK about it.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.

The moral miracle of redemption is that God can put a new nature into me through which I can live a totally new life.