She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.

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.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

You can’t worry about the yesterdays or even the todays. All you can think of are the tomorrows. They are what keep you going when your life seems to be falling apart. Trust me on this.

I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together.

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years.

No love-story has ever been told twice. I never heard any tale of lovers that did not seem to me as new as the world on its first morning.

The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.

Innovation without insight is failure.