When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

No one can take away your pain, so don't let anyone take away your happiness.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad Idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is: if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.

Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward.

Sexual assault and domestic violence are difficult things to talk about. Talk about them anyway.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

The Israelis wanted to sabotage the Palestinian - Palestinian reconciliation.

Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'

Just be good and kind to your children. Not only are they the future of the world, they're the ones who can sign you into the nursing home.

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.

I have never forgotten a picture that I ever made.

A popular license is indeed the many-headed tyrant.

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

Trump is a symptom of widespread disgust, not the head of a carefully crafted ideological movement with a checklist of issues.