Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.

I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.

Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

We have to imagine our dreams becoming reality. We must keep pursuing them and reaching beyond for future achievements. We never stop dreaming as long as we imagine.

Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

I love big ensemble shows where there are a lot of things going on and you have to really pay attention because there's a lot of nuanced work and universal themes are being explored.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

I'm a big sports history buff. I love sports.

Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.