Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

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.

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.

I can hear your angered silence, Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance, Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart.

I have this weird obsession with kids and old people falling. Like, funny falls. It is awful, but it's the thing that makes me laugh the most.

The prettiest of them all is a girl who is pretty on the inside.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.