Determination gets you a long way.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I'm a big health-food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

We co-create when we reach out and touch souls. Like rays of light—where they converge—twice as bright.

Forsake not the friendship of those who have been your staff in adversity, Forget not be benevolence of the blameless.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

Like a bird, when his cage is opened, stays on his perch, dazzled by freedom, the postponed traveler does not see that his cage, with its bars of anxiety, it is open.

But can they [great works] get rid of the worm that lies gnawing at the roots of my heart? No, never.

Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.

I did an internship with Mike (Shanahan) and the Redskins last summer and I knew after a week and a half that it wasn't for me. I think I knew that going in, but I wanted to make sure.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.