My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

If you leave your wife and you don't ever contact her again, that says something about how you felt about the marriage.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.