I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

There's no time to waste. Every day, there needs to be movement on something.

I don’t do ordinary work. That is not me in the least.

It's the past, it's behind us, and that's the end of it.

I'm a business person at heart.

Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like Ebony and Jet magazines.

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people.

As social secretary, I was responsible for putting together all the events that the President and the First Lady host.

We have not really advertised Chicago internationally.

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

Frequently, when I'm compared to someone, I'm like, "Is that really what people think I sound like?"

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.

'Tis sweet to kiss a girl on Spring's first day, but only half so sweet as 'tis to kiss a girl on her bootyhole.

To beguile the time, look like the time.