True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.

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 we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.

A SWOT analysis involves asking, "What are our strengths and weaknesses? What are our opportunities? What are the threats?

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

I've had so many insecurities, and am still getting over a lot.

I don't want to know what people are doing. Like, I don't need to know who's got a new music video and who's got a new lipstick.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I have said a lot in the past and now I think it is best that I do not comment on what I think when I look at President Bush!

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.