She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

Your kids are launched. You love your work but you understand how to place it in the panorama of the rest of your life. There's this line in the book, and when I wrote it I thought yes, that's it - if you think of life as a job, maybe by the time you get to, say, in my case, 60, you've finally gotten good at it.