I feel like I'm a stay-at-home mom, which I was for the five years before this. She's absolutely been my focus. That's the choice I made. Desperate Housewives is perfect for me. I get to go back to work and still be able to take my daughter to school and pick her up.

A house is a machine for living in.

Le Corbusier

Children are poor men's riches.

John Ray

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integration of the two Germanys and Europe.

Angela Merkel

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

George J. Mitchell

Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

Demi Moore

His Labor is a Chant -- his Idleness -- a Tune -- oh, for a Bee's experience of Clovers, and of Noon!

Emily Dickinson

Whoever is my relative, I will not be nice to them.

George Lopez

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Marian Anderson

You can sacrifice and not love. But you cannot love and not sacrifice.

Kris Vallotton

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

Lena Dunham

There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things.

Tim Burton

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

Clive Owen