Personality is immediately apparent, from birth, and I don't think it really changes.

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.

The power of giving is beyond measure.

All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!

On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

I don't feel any sense of competition at all, and that might be my naïveté, but I don't feel pitted against anyone at all.

You practice with wet balls all the time.

Love is an intermediate state between possession and deprivation.

It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Be brave and clear. Follow your heart and don't be overly influenced by outside factors. Be true to yourself.