It's very humbling to imagine somebody else's really life and their pain ... It's my drug.

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.

Some memories were all right, but others were dangerous.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

Money is your friend. Your body is your friend. Life is your friend.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

I've been on shows that go for shock value

Traditionally, the love of reading has been born and nurtured in high school English class

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

Six years-six little years-six drops of time.

When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say.

My job at Stanford is rather different from the ones I had held previously in that my own ambitions must take a back seat to the well-being of the students with whom I work.