Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

A good friend is a connection to life a tie to the past a road to the future the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.

If I had known how wonderful it would be to have grandchildren Id have had them first.

There is no noise louder than a silent phone.

If you can't add to the discussion, don't subtract by talking.

On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.

I'm in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

In 2005, I got an email from Belarus Free Theatre. They were emailing playwrights in America and England announcing their existence and saying they would like support from us. I wrote back and asked if they wanted us to visit. They said, 'Yes, we'd love that.'

I'm playing second fiddle to Justin Bieber - Bieber Fever is sweeping our house, and my girls have made it clear I'm no longer their favourite man.

When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter.

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

I'm super grateful to be an employed actor.

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

Sexuality is such a small part of the make-up of someone; it's not who they are.

I've only auditioned for one non-culturally specific role. I went through drama school and studied classic texts and played lead roles in 'Measure for Measure' and 'The Importance of Being Earnest' alongside a very culturally diverse group of acting students. But as soon as we graduate and enter the industry, all of those roles fall away.

I take my personal upkeep real seriously; my sense of organization and attention to detail; my memory; my business - I love the business.

A presidential speech is always the work of many hands.

One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.

I haven't always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship.

My son has one parent who's 50. I want him to have a family of young people, too!

When youre having a bad day at work a lot of times its your head. When youre having good days a lot of times its the absence of the mind.

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously.