Liberation is an evershifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.

Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!

You can do not just twice as much but 200 times as much when you have a good partner.

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.