I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.

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.

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, then look to those who have been given less.

I doubt most people could survive being defined by the least advisable sexual encounter they've engaged in.

Suddenly, I found I was married to a millionaire.

Sensibility would be a good portress if she had but one hand; with her right she opens the door to pleasure, but with her left to pain.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win.

Only he who is without anything is without enemies.

I don't see myself as part of an acting fraternity or a comedy fraternity.