Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

The best way out is always through.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

The days on which one has been the most inquisitive are among the days on which one has been happiest.

She owned my eyes. From the moment I saw her. They found purchase on any bit of her that was visible.

I don't wear jewelry, as a man.

The goal of #BDS is the full restoration of Palestinian rights, not an agreement to create an artificial mini-state in order to save Zionism

It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

Right now, my career is in three directions: as a performer, as an arranger, as an author - and I don't give any one of them true precedent, or true top marks, as opposed to the other two.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.