You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart.

I believe that I am male and I am female.

I learned a woman is never an old woman.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

Once we as doctors are entrusted with the well-being of our patients and their children, it is our duty to take action, to be selfless, and fulfill our obligation to the service of others. I did so willingly, and it brought me great joy throughout my professional career. However, I always had a desire to do more.

When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.