Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

I don't think that the basics that kids need have changed in 10,000 years.

I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.

I was on a TV show about dancers for two and a half seasons called 'Bunheads' on ABC Family, and that was really fun for me because I'm a dancer in a real life.