The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

I plan on ... encouraging so many women who are out there, who are still in the thick of it, who have yet to fight this fight, that you can do it, you can get through this one step at a time.

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

We've got nothing to lose, and there's no point losing this game

Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.