Advice is overrated. Before you learn what others know, you need to learn what YOU know.

To see the future you have to travel on the rough edge of experience.

Freedom is about what you can unleash.

Women have always been spies

Hell is the place for people who did not live their lives according to the best of what was in them.

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly.

Love thine enemies for the strengths they call up in us make them the instruments of our destiny.

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

Women have always been spies.

The Bane...where coxswain's dirtand seaman's shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest...

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.

Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.

I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives.

The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.

Government should uphold-and not undermine-those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded: religion, education and, above all, family.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.