Born on September 14th

"Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion."

"There are no original ideas. There are only original people."

"The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good."

"Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing."

"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

"Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."

"Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people."

"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."

"True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings."

"Desire creates its own object."

"I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock."

"In the field of mindfulness & peace, be present in this breath, for it is the only moment where life is actually happening."

"Peace is not the silence of the storm, but the calm center you maintain within yourself. As a creative innovator, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"Let go of the weight of yesterday, and receive the clear canvas of this present day."

"In the field of wisdom & life, the path to true wisdom begins when we question the certainties we have carried since childhood."

"Wisdom is the quiet space we cultivate between our thoughts, where clarity finally speaks. As a philosopher & thinker, this is the foundational truth I have observed."

"We seek truth not to change the world around us, but to clarify the lens through which we view it."

"Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them."

"I'm not a boastful person. I like my actions to speak for me."

"It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs."

"People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889."

"What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in."

"The first concert I ever saw was Roy Orbison."

"If you're only going to give away 50 percent of your wealth... c'mon. I'm going to do much more than that."

"I have a friend that has five kids and she went through a trial separation with her husband, and she didn't have time to be upset. Every now and then, she'd call me on the cell phone and just cry."

"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."

"I love playing moms. It's a lot easier than being a mom, I hear."

"One thing I think kids need to do is more chores, and take care of their own rooms. Responsibilities are really important to start them with. If they have animals, they have to feed them and care for them. That's the only way I think I could do it."

"My theory is, if you can do comedy and you can be in a scene with someone like Brad Garrett and hold your own, you've really got a future in this business."

"I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do."