Young people who learn the arts do better in every phase of their lives.

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 swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.