We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

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.

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

Amongst good men two men suffice.

As early as when I was five or six I wanted to perform.

You don't go by your feelings. You do what is right.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers of young people that you then get this extremism.

I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.