I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

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.

You know Morse Code?” Avian asked as we walked up.“My grandpa thought it was a fun game when I was little, ” West said as he rubbed his eyes again. ”That’s a scientist’s version of fun for you.

Sorrow makes us all children again.

This world's a bubble.

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber.

Freud articulated the standard opinion when he asked with supposed seriousness, 'What does a woman want?'... Today the question that is the yeast in the social dough is, 'What do men want?