Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other.

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 translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

There is no second place for doing first rate work.

This girl who's slept a hundred years has something after all. It's called Centuryitis, and it has turned me into a man. Oh, what will mamma think when she sees me?!-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz

You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened...

I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.

Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.

Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.

Flowers represent hope for us; but we do not represent hope for them! Let us keep the flowers in the soil; no plucking!

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.