I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

The best part about working is that you never know what you're going to learn when you start out.

Love is a human experience, not a political statement.

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.