I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

To say that you are being carried is a declaration of enormous faith and hope.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.