What makes you different or weird, that's your strength.
The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.
True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.
Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple - love, sex and food!
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.
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's what you're going to count on. In the end, it's what feels right to you. Not what your mother told you. Not what some actress told you. Not what anybody else told you but the still, small voice.
That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.
We are the choices we have made.
Every easy choice will have its consequence tomorrow.
I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.
There are some days when I, myself, think I'm overrated... but not today.
Pretending is a very valuable life skill.
Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.
Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.
Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Guard your good mood.
I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
When your kids come home, they don't necessarily want to talk to you. They just want to know you're standing there, ready to talk.
You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.
Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.
