The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if you don't know your family, who are you?

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Therapy isn't Radio.We don't need to constantly fill the air with sounds. Sometimes, when its quite, surprising things happen.

When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

How many therapists does it take to change a lightbulb? One, as long as the lightbulb wants to change.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

And to the little Squirrel who lived in the fir-tree, and was lonely, he said, 'Where is my mother?' And the Squirrel answered, 'Thou hast slain mine. Dost thou seek to slay thine also?

I believe the term is ‘eminent domain.’Ah, yes. That means ‘theft by the government,

The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.

I love getting dressed up doing the whole premiere look.

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team.

Think. Learn. Act. The more you know, the better and more educated choices you have the opportunity to make.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!