My thing about having another child was, time's-a-wasting!

"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.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

The Ohio State University has a rich - if quiet - heritage of the arts.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

I never loved a man as far as I could pitch my shoe.

What I'm trying to do is immerse myself.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

Living from our deepest understanding requires an enormous effort, especially when it goes against the stream of our instinctually programmed perceptions of the world.

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.