I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Stay true to your brand and true to your voice and audiences will respond to that authenticity with enthusiasm and passion.

People have different reasons for the way they live their lives. You cannot put everyone's reasons in the same box.

The only thing worse than a loser is someone who won't admit he played badly.

You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

Mediocrity is the elephant in the room.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

I think you need the failures to get the success. You learn more from that.

I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.

I am reading Henry James… and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Twilight and evening bell, and after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell when I embark.

I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.