You didn't have to work to keep your fear up, your energy up, or your anxiety. It is all kind of built into the process.

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.

It's all talk til it's all real walk.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

I get very into my sports.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

My cultural roots are something illusive.

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

I gaze into the doorway of temptation's angry flame And every time I pass that way I always hear my name

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

I was reminded of the Sydney Harris cartoon that said 'adding two numbers that have not been added before does not constitute a mathematical breakthrough'.