I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

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.

How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction.

Girls need to be strong and know how to stand up for themselves. Definitely having friends is a big part of it, so that they can help you through that, and a strong family.

No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.

The Republicans' response to Obama confused a lot of people. I really think there's been a measure of clarity at the end, with Trump's election, that was not present during the Obama presidency.

I have known Johnnie Cochran for many years as an attorney and personal friend, but he has already expressed publicly that he is not on this case.

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.

You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.