There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

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.

If not you, who?

without presence of love -heart is virgin within vast eternity

What happens when you shut your eyes? The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear. See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.

In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.

Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question...

One of my favorite things about playing Avery Jennings on Dog With a Blog, is that I get to play a real teenager who deals with everyday issues.

I rarely use a stylist, and enjoy choosing my outfit on my own. If you know what suits your body and personality then your individual style emerges naturally.

I don't sing the way I used to, so I'm doing everything I can to put the word out that they shouldn't expect that.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.