This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

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.

What do we live for? If not to give what you have and share life with other souls.

Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars, Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.

Mockers = Crown Polishers

May you find what you are searching for, my friend.– I already have and lost it in the finding.

... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

Philosophical questions and modes of thought just seem natural to me. They mesh with the way my mind works.

Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

When it comes to our integrity: one moment in a dark place can cast a shadow for a lifetime.

You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.