I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

I'm very appreciative of, and I also, having traveled the world, know that the United States is one of the few places where there really are no limitations. As long as you've got drive and hard work and a good idea and you can get out there and do your thing, there's no social classes, so in a lot of countries there's a big history of regardless of how much money you may make, there's still that little thing where you're not in society. That doesn't exist here.

My mother had a beautiful, soothing voice that made me melt.

I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.

Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

I'd love to have a program like 'Dr. Laura.' I studied psychology at the University of Miami, and when I rode the bus home from school, perfect strangers would strike up conversations with me and end up telling me their life stories. I think they could sense that I was studying to help people. That, or I have a face like a priest.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.