To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

Sometimes, I think one should only live in the present. The past is only a heavy burden to carry with you. And yet... it's so hard to let them go... to forget... to move ahead.

I've rarely met a shoe I didn't like.

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.