Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter

Being the free woman who is sexy and out there is a performance in a way, and being the stay-at-home mom and wife is a performance in itself. All of those performances are living and force you to make decisions about who you really are. Women have to put those performances ahead of things sometimes. Men aren't perceived in the same way.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent.

To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

Your work is the single greatest means at your disposal for expressing your social intelligence.