Pretending is a very valuable life skill.

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.

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

You're perfect. To me you are. You always will be. When you're small you think that about your parents. When you're old, you think that about your kids. You'll see.

I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever questioned it.

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

"Winning" is a subjective word, but we are making advancement. This is the correct word, because winning for some people is when you finish completely.

I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.

I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.

Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.