I just take every day is a miracle and I'm really glad that I'm still working and that people are not sick of me, even though even I'm sick of me a little bit.

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.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it.

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

I like meat and carbohydrates.

I suspect people are going to vote for Max Burns because they know him as local boy who's got - share their values.

The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

You make mistakes and you learn from them.

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters