Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.

Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.