Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

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.

When you leave where God is sending you to somewhere else, your star will varnish. A lesson to learn here....don't go to Herod's house when you are looking for Jesus.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting. I'm not bad at it, but I don't think I really have a talent for it.

Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.

Ultimately, if I'm really moved by something, it's going to go on the record and that's that

I don't believe in dieting.

I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.

At home, off-duty, I wear T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom - but I have them tailored.