Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?

I've been so fortunate because I never really had ups and downs as far as my career. Ninety-nine percent of the time, I've been sold out all over the world.

You get hate in this business growing up. When you're a young performer, you just don't get the credit for the work that you did. And it is what it is. You can't walk around with a chip on your shoulder.

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

I didn't make any mark on Barcelona. It was a blip in my career in terms of what I did as a coach.