My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

Fashion says 'Me too', and style says 'Only me'.

When you can't afford to hire the best, you hire the young who are going to be the best.

Marriage is a linchpin in many womens lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

You kissed me once and now you feel as if you’ve got some special kind of licence to do it whenever you want?

A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.

I think my dad's post-presidency, he didn't miss a beat. He didn't get into any kind of 'Woe is me.' He dusted himself off and led an incredible life since 1993.

I actually play sports better when I'm mad. Some players don't play better when they're mad. They lose their sense of where they're at. I have a tendency to do better when I'm under pressure.

I am an atheist, myself. A simple faith, but a great comfort to me, in these last days.

I think that creative people, wherever they are, in any field, take inspiration wherever they can find it.

The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

I am a scientist. I go where the facts take me.