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

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.

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.

Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.

Just as a woman's eyes are the mirrors of her soul, her shapely bottom is her seat of learning.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

I am not the we of anyone

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats.

It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.