Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.

The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses

We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

It's really important, whether you're a conservative or a liberal, to always challenge the conventional wisdom, which is what I've tried to do in all my work.

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.

In May 2007, congressional Democrats and the Bush administration agreed to a plan to include environmental and international labor standards in upcoming trade agreements.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

We're going to take care of our military - the people in our military, the finest people we have.

It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.

Before trying a novel I wrote a couple of plays.

I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.

I don't see myself as being as big of an influence as other people seem to think.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.