Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.