Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Our family may seem extraordinary in some magazines or something, but at home it's not. We're really just a very loving family. We're very close, and we don't read magazines. We just kind of go to work and come home. We try to keep a sense of reality into their lives. What's truly real, not Hollywood real.

Arabs and Mulims are not terrorists.The world should unite against Israel.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.