The issues in America are so big, and the problems are enormously complicated. But I am incredibly confident in Donald Trump to be able to execute on his promise to the people who elected him.

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.

The best writers I've read possess oodles of self-doubt, yet claw their way up with each work and remain humble. Boastful ones, not so much.

I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

I felt the unordinary romance of / women who love women for the first time.

If you cannot bless yourself, then nobody can bless you.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.