There's something advantageous about having people underestimate your intellect, insomuch as a lot of things are revealed to you. They assume you don't know what you're talking about, then all of a sudden, you do. And the next thing you know, you have information you wouldn't normally have.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.

The power of a handwritten letter is greater than ever. It's personal and deliberate and means more than an e-mail or text ever will. It has a unique scent. It requires deciphering. But, most important, it's flawed.

I can't grow a mustache. It's pretty sad if I attempt to.

I think I probably think about myself as an actor, which is the way most people do. I think I'm good, I don't think I'm great. I think I would hire somebody else to play me in the movie about me.

The thing that enchants me the most is the ability women have to feel other people's pain. The total empathy that women have is extraordinary.