It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

The political is personal.

... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him about clothes.

This is the wisdom: If we bless our bodies, they will bless us.

When you attempt something new, there's always fear. A couple of helpful slogans to me are "follow the fear" or "fear is a sign of growth."

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.