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.

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.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.

What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can.

When God opens a door no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.

Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed?

Reflect on what you do in your day. You may have never realized how some simple harmless activities rob you of precious time

I'm just a wimpy baby. We almost called the band Forever Teens because I feel like we're all kind of permanently youthful.

No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.

It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.

I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?

Simplicity is freedom.