If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood.

To me, working is a form of sustenance, like food or water, and nearly as essential.

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. ... It is a city that offers me more people -- more different kinds of people -- than I could otherwise possibly have come to know in a lifetime: the native Washingtonian, the local merchant, the foreign diplomat, the ever-present tourist, the public servant, the journalist, the president, the friend.

The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is something else.