To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.