My kids are the most important people in the world to me.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both.

They say I'm a natural, I have natural charisma. People say that. I don't know.

I constantly worry about my family and my kids. 'Are they O.K., what are they doing right now?'

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

Kindness should be a priority for every human being.

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

My parents really raised me with the value that it's important to give back, and I've always gravitated towards non-profits and charities that work with children.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

The United States Government has fought against creation of an international court to adjudicate the ability of national economies to pay debts.