Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

Can I give them what they think they're going to get from me? That's always the big question.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness, and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.