To be included in the group with women like Glenn Close and Kyra Sedgwick is a little bit astonishing to me. To even be mentioned in the same sentence as Glenn Close is just ridiculous.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

The best thing a person can be is of-some-use.

If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.

My love life is nobody's business... if I give it to 40 million people to read, what do I have left when I go home? I'm protective of my personal life that way.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

What a wonderful time for women on television.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

It's really best not to tell people when you feel bad. Growing up is about keeping secrets, and pretending everything is fine.

The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man.

Find your center and stay there.

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

I am strangely addicted to the writing of long letters, which, I am afraid, tire you; and for the future, I believe, I must be less communicative, in order to be less troublesome.

Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?

Normal is normal – and has been called normal for a reason.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Women are much smarter then men and often are much more political creatures, so they can have the ability to manipulate men, particularly on a boat.