I watch 'Mad Men,' I knit scarves, I cook and am very, very normal. Honestly.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

The solution to nearly every problem in the world comes down to greater awareness, compassion, and empathy.

some of the people with the best smiles are actually broken inside

Elsewhere is within

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

The fact that we have people who have headed up oil corporations now assigned to places in cabinet.

Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.

Communism is just one big telephone company.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.