Instant gratification is not soon enough.

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.

I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.

You’ve got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start.

Anger does not come easy to me. It is something I have to encourage, like a greyhound in second place.

[Rangers] discover the truth though it is surrounded by a bodyguard of lies.

One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.

Why is it that if you happen to be black and over six feet tall, everybody thinks you supposed to play basketball or football?

My favorite three words in the English language are: ’I don’t know’, because every time I say them, I learn something new.