A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Entrepreneurs are selected to be just doers, not thinkers, and doers do, they don't talk.

Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.

The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.

I have nothing to do with Russia. I have no deals there.

During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

When we're born. . . All of us. . . Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are. . . Don't matter.

It is interesting that [James Comey] is not doing investigations about the possible - possible ties between [Donald] Trump's campaign and the Russians.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

There's no such thing as luck. These are blessings. God endows them upon you. He makes you a blessing to become a blessing.