"Married with Children" was racy, it was sexist, it was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.

I was very rebellious.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.

Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.

I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music.

I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun.

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

I really like sort of disappearing.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Hatred is as easy as slipping on a well-worn woolen cloak. If only it provided the comfort of one.

The great souls distinguish with two things

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

The Canadian run can be no different, at least in terms of actual running.

He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall.

Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?

What's the use of a high school education if you can't recall it when needed later on?

I no longer limit myself.

Sometimes I'm afraid that my daughter might think that I get my hair done for a living.