"I love the feeling of being on a team, rehearsing together, sharing a dressing room - I love that so much."

"My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy."

"I'm privileged, because I have a lot of freedom. I want to use it to make as warm and normal a life as I can for our daughters."

"I wish I was one of those cute pregnant girls who wear skinny jeans throughout their pregnancies. But I just gain weight."

"The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner."

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."

"Time is the most impartial judge; it reveals all pretenses and rewards all patience. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a profound truth that he who reads widely and ponders deeply builds an unshakeable inner citadel."