Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Finally, I get to have houseplants and they stay alive.

But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass.

So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

I didn't mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it's turned into this 'It-girl' thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It's so weird.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

What's worse in Hollywood, being handicapped or being a woman over 50?

Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.

Take on today this new day by force and do something you never did before like live. Today was given to you for a reason so rejoice and be happy.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

No plan survives contact with the enemy.

You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

Never blog just to put something out there. I would post only things that excite me.

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving.

I thrive on physical confrontation. It's a competitive juice in me. I'm always going to have that in the back of my mind. So whether I'm 49, 59, 69 or 109, I'm always going to think that I can go out and compete.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

I used to get so carried away while I was on stage that I'd be physically damaged by the end of a concert.

I find it difficult to imagine an afterlife, such as Christians, or at any rate many religious people, conceive it, believing that the conversations with relatives and friends interrupted here on earth will be continued in the hereafter.

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

In general, the human race is still a young organism.

I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.

As soon as you 'Botox' your smile lines away, you lose part of your identity.