I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

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 must be repressed truth even in lies.

Be strong in heart, spirit and mind.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

You’re different, Elli. You’re unlike anyone else, it’s because of that…’‘How can a Prince, how can someone like you be seen with me? I get it, Evan, its fine.’‘It’s because of that, I want you.

Madness is like gravity, you just need to push it...

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

To love something is to destroy it forever.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

I never talk about anything to do with my sexuality.

If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for