Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going.

And, over the last thirty years we have seen men's participation in both housework and childcare has increased and women's have stayed at about the same.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

Most people treat the office manual the way they treat a software manual. They never look at it.

But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

Art has never been a popularity contest.

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

Begin where you are and what you are.

I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

Again and again, when Westerners are perceived as denigrating Muhammad, the Koran, or Islam, Islamists demonstrate, riot or kill.

Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.