You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

I'm the daughter of refugees. The immigrant mentality is to work hard, be brave, and never give up in your pursuit of achieving the American dream.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Just because marriage didn't work for us doesn't mean we don't believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn't mean our hearts don't lift at the sight of our daughters' Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.

A tradition I remember from my childhood was that when there was a wedding in any one family, the entire village shared the responsibility and contributed. Regardless of the caste or community, the bride became the daughter of not just a single family but of the entire village.

My oldest daughter got married, she had a wedding in Hawaii and a reception in Nashville, and in between I had a Cup date in Dauphin, Manitoba.

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

The truth is lived, not taught.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

I say never trust a man who combs his hair so as to cover his shiny dome and then flaunts a wife young enough to be his daughter. Oh, Trump has issues all right.

Motherhood is not what was left over after our Father blessed His sons with priesthood ordination. It was the most ennobling endowment He could give His daughters, a sacred trust that gave women an unparalleled role in helping His children keep their second estate.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

Movie acting is a great job for your twenties: You travel all over, you have affairs with people, and you throw yourself into one part and then another. It gets more challenging as you get older, and it's not just having a daughter, it's wanting to have your own life and be yourself.

I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter.

This June, I'll travel once again to the Food and Wine Magazine Classic in Aspen, Colorado. For many years, my dear friend Julia Child and I have teamed up to teach classes together at the event; for the past seven years, my daughter, Claudine, has been my cooking partner on stage.

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy.

My daughter does not travel with me. She has a much more stress-free life at home with her daddy.