The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
I don't know how to sit outside myself and test against a hypothetical self who stayed home.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.
I suppose I had these concerns but I really felt that I had to keep my scope very, very concentrated.
I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.
My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.