My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.

I think it's a right that every American parent should have - choice and competition in education, and choice in schools are most important to me.

In everything I do, my children come first, and my husband. I just think it's so important to maintain family stability.

The strength of women and women's rights around the world are especially important because that affects children and families. And the cascade effect is remarkable.

Our government treats the LGBT community like second-class citizens.

If you really want to see change, and have change, you're going to have to get involved.

I believe in the great spirit and intelligence of Americans.

I did learn a great deal about my husband but I also learned something about myself: I made a wise choice. I think he's a good man.

I would continue to do the things that I do. I'd get into the field and work, and be an example to other people that you can't rely on the government to be the answer to everything.

Having a strong father, I wanted an older man.

BlackBerrys are a wonderful tool. I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids, as they are with me.

Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession, ' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

Electronics is clearly the winner of the day.

We need radical curiosity and reverent pranks, voracious listening and ferocious thanks.

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

If it makes you happy it can't be that bad

The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.