“Sleep is such a potent, liminal state, and I don’t want to drag anything in there that doesn’t need to be there.”

I have to welcome the pain like I welcome the joy.

Love is a true unconditional space to me. To love someone or to be loved is to be seen, and I think, gosh, as humans, all we want is to be seen, to be heard, right? To be valued. To be respected. But mostly just to be held in a safe, unconditional space.

I think true beauty is everywhere. Be it. See it. Notice it. Love it. Be grateful for it. Marvel at it. It’s everywhere. It’s all around us all the time.

It’s a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, ‘I get to play the First Lady.’ It’s just fun to say.

Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

My dad used to say, ‘Just be yourself and you’ll be fine,’ but it’s really, really true.

I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree.

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

I feel it is a blessing, a duty, an honor, that we give the love that we have, and we share the lives that we have with our fullest heart.

There’s a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

I think you choose how you walk through this life. I think if you choose to participate in a paradigm that is looks-based, if you’re an actor, then it can be empowering in some ways, and it can be really limiting in some ways in terms of time and longevity.

If I’m feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that’s a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

I get a lot of work done in my dreams and I don’t want to take anybody else’s work with me.

That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we’re in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

I receive it as gently as I can, because the cruelest thing that I do to myself is try to push myself through an experience.

If you can learn to convey what you express in the first rough sketch, you’re really saying what you need to say in that.

Poetry is very crafted. You can’t have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

When you manage people, you must first convince them they need managing. So you create the problems and then let the people cry for solutions.

I don’t need to apologize for my behavior you need to apologize for not understanding.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Far more gardens fail because the gardener is absent or not paying attention than because he or she lacks erudition. Yes, you need to know your ABCs [the basics], but the more you garden, the more you’ll learn what works and what doesn’t.

Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.