Sometimes growing pains are by fits and starts.

A large family and Democrats have a lot in common: teenagers and Democrats are always happy spending other people's money.

I think one of the political problems we have in this country is the perspective that all soccer moms think alike, all African-Americans think alike.

There's a reason people run negative ads... it's because they work.

We have to achieve what we can, and if we haven't yet learned that we are not always going to get our way this could be frustrating.

Who I really am is the mother of six kids and Woody's wife.

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.

When you have a dark side, nothing is ever as good as it seems.

I do not know all of the providences of the Lord, but I do know that he permits false doctrine to be taught in and out of the Church and that such teaching is part of the sifting process of mortality

When I worked with Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, she told me, You need a plan B, because when you have six months to a year off, you can go nuts. You need to have another focus.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing of intense faith and experience.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.