The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

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 first thing I understand is pain.

It is better to be running after the truth and principles of God than to be running after miracles

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.

We are continuously living a new life, and when the old and the new do not fit nicely together, the old - no longer able to contain the new - should be discarded.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.

I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Feminism, when it truly achieves its goals, will crack through the most basic structures of our society.