I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

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.

Mass production keeps the world divided between consumer and producer. Demassification of production may hasten the speed towards an era of prosumers.

For your information, I do love you. Although at times like this I have to wonder why.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.

People write a lot of similar material. That's why I try to come up with the most absurd jokes.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

Information is power. Particularly when the competition ignores the opportunity to do the same.

My physique is down to 20 years of eating cheese.