I had to have a complete liver transplant.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

They had to match blood type and meet all sorts of things I don't know about.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger.

I can't think of my life without Donna Reed. She has been such an enormous influence on my life.

I didn't have a dysfunctional childhood or young adulthood, but I was somebody who was very much raised to do what other people told me to do as a person.

I had to have a complete liver transplant. I waited with a beeper for a year and 10 months to get that gift.

I think the years on 'The Donna Reed Show,' the years from 14 to 19, were so incredibly important. Donna Reed was simply an extraordinary woman, a woman of great strength, kindness, integrity and compassion. I am not trying to make her sound like a saint, but she had the most profound influence on me. I carry her with me today.

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

The chances of a child coming through as I did... the world is too hard. On the other hand, I would always encourage children of mine if they wanted to be in school plays and dance and sing. But I wouldn't put them to work.

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

At around 50 employees, you get to the point where you can't see what's going on all the time. So you start to have weekly check-ins, and you have days that go by without knowing exactly what's going on.

Arent we forgetting the true meaning of this day the birth of Santa

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

Everyone responds to kindness.

A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with.

The less attached you are, the more peaceful you are.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

A healthy ocean is vital to our economy and well-being. We need clean and healthy oceans to sustain tourism and fisheries.

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

The fundamental idea which defines a human being as a Muslim is the declaration of faith: that there is a creator, whom we call God - or Allah, in Arabic - and that the creator is one and single. And we declare this faith by the declaration of faith, where we... bear witness that there is no God but God.

A century before the concept took hold in America, pirate ships were democracies. Most captains were elected by crew and could be voted out anytime.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.

Comparing what you see during an eclipse to the darkness at night is like comparing an ocean to a teardrop.

People are happiest when they're the most productive. People enjoy tasks, especially creative tasks, when the tasks are in the optimal-challenge zone: not too hard and not too easy. To some extent, that has always been true. But it becomes even more true as work becomes more about brains and creativity.

I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

I spent five years of my youth in prison - some very bad prisons.

Let us be damned. Let us be weird . Let us love the things which most do not.