“I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.”

“I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.”

“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.”

“If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.”

“A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.”

“I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth.”

“The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.”

“Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.”

“You don't learn from successes you don't learn from awards you don't learn from celebrity you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth. ”

“I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older than other servicemen and had a family to support but he wanted to be a part of the fight against fascism, not just make movies about it. I admired this about him.”

“The most important thing to do as you age is to stay physically active. Lots of people just throw in the towel if they can't do what they used to do, and that's terrible.”