The joy of reading can take you so many different places. In addition to intelligence and stretching your mind, I just think reading is so crucial in terms of being a well-rounded person.

When people don't want the best for you, they are not the best for you.

We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.

I'll do almost anything for cake - even trample little children!

With growth comes change.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

I still love listening to people's problems. I'm still good at giving people unsolicited advice.

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

I love a man who loves his mama, which is one of the many reasons I'm crazy about Justin Timberlake.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

I have an impressionable palate. A well-worded menu or beautifully presented dish excites me. I get a great deal of pleasure just thinking about food.

Children of the light, walk in the light.

Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page?

You can consider this carved in stone: I rule out becoming Herman Van Rompuy's successor.

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

The most interesting thing about Google is its founders hated advertising.