I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.