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.

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.

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.

As there begins to be less time ahead of you, you want to be exactly who you are, without making it easier for everyone else.

You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?

Having to travel so much plays havoc with your personal life.

If you want to give me Robert Downey Jr in a metal suit and have him join the X-Men, then yes, let’s go head-to-head [with Marvel Studios].

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas That with the blustering winds turmoiled be.

Life can be both hell and bliss or it can be nothing at all.

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.