I’m a product of pop culture.
I advise young women: Negotiate hard and know your worth.
I was probably 10 or 11 when I saw that, and sort of started thinking, You know what? Marriage is an option. Having a family is an option. And going to school and getting your education and building your career is another really viable option that can lead to happiness and fulfillment.
I don’t believe in playing games. It’s not something I would do.
How hard you work matters more than how much you make.
Studying in countries like China isn’t only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It’s not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It’s also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It’s about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world.
Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!
We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It’s a lovely place to be, but it’s not extravagant.
What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)
Love is simple: It is waking up knowing you exist in a mind outside of your own. It is having one heart that carries two beats. It is you and me spoken in terms of us and we.
Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
I do not like to be unkind.
Power begins with having a crystal-clear view of reality and what each and every person in your life is driven by.
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.
You get what you ask for in this life. If you ask for nothing, you get nothing.
Dont find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain.
Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon – but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx –the world went around, it didn’t stop for a second. It’s sad but true. John Kennedy, right?
