I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

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.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE!

If My New Album Isn't Out in 2014, Something is Seriously Wrong!

Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.

A poet, to whom no one cruel or imposing listens, Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust.

Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.

Nearly all legislation is the result of compromise.

I am a product of the system, I was born to destroy.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

I love the honesty of New Yorkers. When a New Yorker says 'let's do lunch,' they actually mean it. In L.A., when they say 'let's do lunch,' they're just trying to say good-bye.