Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.

Take all the hype out of the exercise and think of it as brushing your teeth.

Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

You think you need the newest shoe and the newest outfit. We forget exercising is free. We forget it only takes a little bit every day.