Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it.

High tech needs to be complemented by high touch.

Just because you can’t find them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You’ve got to change the way you’relooking for them. Because there are always job vacancies out there.

Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.

What the meaning of this period of unemployment is, now.One way to get at that definition is to ask ourselves, “What is this time for?

..a disability is something within you. A prejudice is something within theemployer...don’t look at yourself through their eyes. Look at yourself through your own eyes.

I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

What keeps me going is that quest for just being able to be present and be myself. Not for people, but for me.

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

Ask me a question about paparazzi, and I get so heated. And I feel so bad for young kids of celebrities. My nieces and nephews get yelled at, and I'm like, 'You are yelling at a 2-year-old.'

I think we'll see it mostly in the United States. We're getting to the point where al Qaeda is ready to again attack us inside America. I think we're basically defenseless.