I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.

The baby boomers are getting older and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy especially because I realize that following the tragedies of this year it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become in a special way the servant of the others.

I have frequently been questioned especially by women of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well it has not been easy.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

To have faith is to believe in truth believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

I spent four months in Prague in these blue rooms reacting to nothing and you basically place your faith in the hands of the director and the special effects co-coordinator and you keep your fingers crossed and hope that the creatures look really scary.

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith especially when it's hard to do so.

You work on things and you have such faith in them while you're making them that everything feels special - in a way.

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.

The royals - all of them especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned especially if he has doubts about it himself.