The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.

In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched with the same madness and genius.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE! Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one.

I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

Any idiot that wants to make a couple of thousand drawings for a hundred feet of film is welcome to join the club.