An exercise outfit helps because it sets this time apart from the rest of your day and makes it matter more.

The vulnerability of opening your heart fully and deeply to another is terrifying, but at a point in my 50s, I realized that I had to step up to the plate.

Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.

What's totally terrifying is that, unlike a musician who has a musical instrument, or a painter that's got a canvas and a brush, acting is us. Our energy, our soul, our spirits. And it's so hard because it's so vul­nerable. You're exposing everything.

I grew up with a deep belief that wherever our troops fought, they were on the side of the angels.