If I stay here, I will be just fine. Before I shut the door, I got a box of crackers from the kitchen, so I will be fine.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

Forever be happy, never be content, and always know the difference.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success.

People of difference are always held to different standards.