The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

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 glamorous colors of the sunset is inviting me

Intelligence will teach you how to make a living

Love and heartbreak is something that's always been a part of me.

It's wrong I think, morally and annoying in general, to try to get a kid to be a foodie, so I never even suggested, "Hey baby it's good, maybe you should try it." That never worked for me.

What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions.

We're going to make America safe again. We're going to make America great again, but we're going to make America safe again.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.

Things come to you in life when you're prepared for them, when you're ready for them.

Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors...

My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.