If you show up without makeup or looking sloppy, no matter how impressive your ideas are, no one is going to pay attention to you. People take you more seriously if you look polished.

Quite simply, promotions are not just functions of ability, values, or the numbers you hit, but also rest critically on how you are perceived.

For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.

The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.

my godis not as unreachable asthey'd like you to thinkmy god is beating inside us infinitely

A world of Peace and liberty is my dream

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

Sometimes I just want to sit and write at a clean table and not get paint all over my hands.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

I was always a self-conscious person.

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

There is a world of difference between a person who has a big problem and a person who makes a problem big.

Do you love me? What? Do you? I love you. I don't know if I trust you. Maybe you shouldn't do either. Maybe I'm the one who should decide!