You are the most brave intrepid person I have ever known, and you have dedicated your life to helping those who are misunderstood and underrepresented.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.

For many people, illness - loss of health - represents the crisis situation that triggers an awakening. With serious illness comes awareness of your own mortality, the greatest loss of all.

I take from people all the time. I didn't ever go to acting classes or anything. You can just watch people.

I worked very hard as a young journalist learning the trade and asking questions, understanding what a story is and being able to present that in a way that people would find interesting.

This is my wish, this is my command, my pleasure is my reason

There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another

Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use language in beneficial ways.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.