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

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.

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.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

All sliced up and sealed tight in baggies. Guess love makes you do funny things.

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

You're asking for trouble, Hannagan," he growls. "And you would be....?" Janie asks. She giggles. "Trouble.

Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.