It takes time to get to the top, and that's good - because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

I'm only asking you to stop every so often and turn off your mobile device, put down the Angry Birds and the Words with Friends and take a moment. Stop to look up and look around. Pause and check in with yourself - and spend a moment there.

I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.

The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

So many people don't know who's on the State Seal and they don't know, not just in California but the United States of America, things they look at every day and they say, 'Wow! I didn't know that.'

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Motherhood: 24/7 on the frontlines of humanity. Are you man enough to try it?