I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

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 idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.

It is frustrating when in an interview people say: 'Give us your make-up tips' and 'How do you stay skinny?' I think: 'Do you ask a guy that?

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing.

Mercy requires that we learn to love others, to value their welfare more than our own!

Everyone has an inner hero that they have glimpsed from time to time, just waiting to break free Now is the time to tap into your true hero potential.