I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought about.

I am here to win trophies, you know, to help the team to reach our targets. I feel blessed to have the opportunity to bring my small thing to the big machine. You know, for Chelsea.

I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.

I was getting worried I may not become a grandfather, but the Lord has blessed me.

We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building up Iraqi security forces, and handing over Iraq to the Iraqi people.

Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice.

Sometimes, it's just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It's exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I'm starting to get seasick.

The Beatles, 'Revolver.' It's pop. It's classic. It's experimental. It's revolutionary.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

'Lives' is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material - and after that, you're not sure what you can do.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise.

A break-up between couples is traumatic for everyone.

The biggest lesson I learned in 2017 is do the best with what you have with where you are.