Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

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.

There are some we cannot help but take an instant dislike to.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

All of nature is resurrection.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

I think many people have an illusion of success based on entering in at a level that's higher than their experiences.