Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.

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.

The definition of a person who practices visualization and positive thinking, without taking action: a broke loser.

Collapse, spread, merging, union: these things sound like the opposite of loneliness, and yet intimacy requires a solid sense of self to be successful and satisfying.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.

Big things are accomplished when we master the little things.

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that indeed I am a man.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

People are far more protective [of women] instinctively.