I'd love to have three or four kids. But my mom always says: "Speak to me after you have your first".

Work is changing for men as much as it is for women.

Success isn’t something that happens to you; you happen to it.

I'm not a clone, and I'm not a minion.

It's very hard to be great at what you do if you aren't deeply passionate.

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn't just be given to me.

Everything about mediocrity kills me.

I set very bold goals. It's how I've always been. I'm definitely somebody who swings for the fences, and I expect very high performance.

People underestimate me, and that's fine. I prefer to go into negotiations being underestimated.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

I've never lived in a building without my name on it.

No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan to tell 'em.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.

Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy.

I spoke it soft, but close enough to brush against her lips. I spoke it quiet, but near enough so that the sound of it went twining through her hair. I spoke it hard and firm and dark and sweet.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night.