I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

Après ski is my favorite sport.

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?