Lisa Ling quotes:

Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical amounts of junk food in order to supplement shrinking budgets. It's a ticking time bomb, and America's children are exploding.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

I have a zillion bottles of hot sauce. I love Trader Joe's jalapeno. The whole right side of my fridge is filled with hot sauce.

People are starting to know more about it, but I was blown away by Almaty, Kazakhstan. It's like a future Swiss Alps. It has the potential to be an extraordinary ski resort. It is a city with beautiful mountain scapes.

I like crunchy things like Baked Lays.

Make your relationship your number-one priority.

I had a planned C-section, and I cried the entire day before I had the baby.

My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.

He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

I hope my desire to travel so much isn't forever because it's not the most conducive lifestyle for a relationship or a family by any means.

I don't remember my first trip, but I do remember when my mom took me to Disney World in Orlando. It wasn't the rides but Epcot Center that most fascinated me. It made me want to see those countries that are represented there for real.

The best education I have ever received was through travel.

Our time on Earth is so random.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

Very often, overweight children have parents who are struggling with weight issues.

I started running when I was 21 years old and studying in China.

I think that's something people need to convey because you see all these celebrity moms out there, and the perception is they can do it all, but they have sooo much help. And it's kind of an unfair image to project for many women, because it is really hard, and if you have help, you should indicate you have help.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliche, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

I'm a big Ping-Pong addict. I love it.

I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.

One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any real grass on our property. It might not be realistic to ask people to pull out their grass, but we'll never have to think about it. We used Smart Grass, and I think it looks beautiful.

I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

Personally, I've always known that I wanted to go back to work because I'm confident, and I'm certain that my daughter will have a better mother in me if I'm doing the things that I'm excited about and that I'm passionate about.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

The city of Oia is the most magnificently romantic place I've ever been.

I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about it, but in all honesty, I can't say that I will.

We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.

When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

It is said that the way to prevent obesity is not to allow kids to become overweight in the first place. But it takes a multi-pronged approach that has to start with parents. Kids are just too young to understand the consequences of obesity.

There are so many factors to lead to a child becoming obese.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure

Hospitality is one of the things the Afghan population is famous for, but nobody says that anymore. Now they're terrorists - and they're not. They're people.

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

I don't trust lawyers and journalists.

I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.

I hadn't wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

My husband and I try to spend some time every night that I'm home talking without distractions.

Refrain from being too judgmental. You'll often be surprised by what people have to offer.

Such a small percentage of our population carry the burden of knowing what's really going on in our country's name, and I think that unless that's out in the open and people are discussing it, then our healthy democracy is not so healthy.

The Girl Scouts is where I became acquainted with the idea that a woman can do anything. Learning that early on has a tremendous impact on the development of a young girl's personality. It had a huge impact on me. Girl Scouts is where I first learned about philanthropy and fell in love with the concept of helping others-in my troop this was very important. We did a lot of community service like picking up trash and feeding the homeless. Loving humankind was something that echoed throughout my time at Girl Scouts.

There are so many kids in this world, and in this country, that need homes. And so we're perfectly content to look into adoption one day, if for some reason we aren't able to have a biological child.

There's a huge piece of humanity that's missing - a huge piece - and our [American] culture is infant, comparatively speaking, to these folks who have been around for thousands of years.

We all need to provide the checks and balances for democracy.

We have had a long held myth of American exceptionalism.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

We've got to stop thinking everybody who is Muslim is a terrorist.

What a lot of people don't know, because in a lot of TV and movies, they have a lot of men talking about computers - it was a woman who invented the first compiler!

When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?

You should treat your marriage like a business that you wouldn't want to let fail.

Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.