I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

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.

A heart filled with love is the source of power and strength.

We should not scorn those whose fear is greater than our own.

Going through a long legal battle is not what you sign up for as a fighter.

Every worker needs a decent and legal source of income.

I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am today.