You have to be quite grounded, and I don't know what that is. Sometimes, that means being vulnerable.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.

The friend that you’re with makes you the friend that you are!

We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from enforcing ethics rules.

There (in the Soviet Union) it was a science. In order to be a coach, you had to study in school.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

Raising kids may be a thankless job with ridiculous hours, but at least the pay sucks.

The past is only the future with the lights on

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.