I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.

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.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't

Between Ron Paul and Rick Perry, I think the lesson is don't get sick in Texas.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

So far he's bringing his A-game.

Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

Controlling for all the things that sociologists, economists, and political scientists say you should control for, we find that what drives one's views [most significantly] is race.

I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

A mans fame and hayre grow most after death, and are both equally uselesse.

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.