An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as roles.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

The other side of every fear is a freedom.

Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

Our biggest failure is our failure to see patterns.

Any fool can start a religion. And many do.

Meryl Streep is not here tonight. She has the flu - and I hear she's amazing in it.

I'm kind of a night owl.

You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.

I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.

I lovingly do everything I can to assist my body in maintaining perfect health

We used to call it recurrent airplay when someone had a hit

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.

Wisdom is knowing when you don't know