I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.

I ignore all the doomsaying nonsense. I'm in a business where the odds of ever earning a living are a zillion to one, so I know itcan be done. I know the impossible can become possible.

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

Eve Ensler is a hero of mine. She's been working for the rights of women for a long time.

There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where, I love you directly without problems or pride:I love you this way because I know no other way to love,

Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time

The revolution begins at home.

The inspirations of today are the shams of tomorrow the purpose has departed.

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.

I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver.