"I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives."

"It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden."

"I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances."

"It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer."

"It is a subtle truth that humility is not weakness in leadership; it is the cornerstone of unassailable respect — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?"

"The cost of intelligence will trend towards zero."

"It is a timeless truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea."