Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

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

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

If you were a tree, what kind would you be?