"Is it harder having kids and working? It definitely is, but the payoff is you get to go home to your kids, and it all balances out. And I know I'm a better mother when I'm engaged in something outside of the house."

"I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune."

"I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point."

"My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?"

"I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food."

"I try to live each day with passion and purpose."

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."