The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

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.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly

Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Though the meek shall inherit the earth, but don't forget: The poor are the ones who inherit the debt.

A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power.

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody