My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

I think anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy.

Some of the most important lessons I've learned have been from stumbling, and I am deeply grateful that my parents allowed me to fight my own battles.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that.