When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.

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.

In with the new, out with the old.’ That’s what we’re told. We have to change, adapt, compromise.

Few find success without hard work and determination. Those who do have hardly gained anything for themselves that they deserve.

If you love something and stick with it, you will get phenomenal results.

Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

There are no shortcuts and no sweatless quickies.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors.

I'm so tired. I don't know if I can ever outrun how I used to be.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.