You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

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.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.

Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.

Sometimes what we want isn't what's best for us - Della

I stand up for other people, I'm very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.

We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.

I feel safe with him because he is so not my ideal and I feel like I can be myself because I'm not in love with him.

The key to life is to be happy with or without money. Money only magnifies who you really are.

You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.