America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

You have to embrace getting older. Life is precious, and when you've lost a lot of people, you realize each day is a gift.

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

When you are young, feelings are your truth. Love is how you feel. The years have taught me that love is not an emotion that you feel about someone, but what you do for them.

There is an inexorable correlation between leadership and change.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then another dream begins.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

It's OK to tell your partner to objectify you. That's part of the fun of having a partner.

Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.