I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

I'm a working mom, not a professional athlete, but I am a runner and that's a special club.

Surround yourself with the best people and then get out of their way. Give them a chance to exceed your expectations and they usually will.

It’s amazing what you can do when you stop worrying about failing.

Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

It's really important how you say things because people won't necessarily remember what words you used but they'll remember how you made them feel.

Democracy is about criticism.

The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd.

That's the ideal meeting...once upon a time, only once, unexpectedly, then never again.

Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate.

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations.

I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.