Leadership in telecommunications is also essential, since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

The risk from terrorism remains acute and the private market cannot continue to operate without a government backstop.

Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting.

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.

The first rule of travel is that you should always go with someone you love, which is why I travel alone.

I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

I have no trouble sleeping.

Suddenly she was here. And I was no longer pregnant; I was a mother. I never believed in miracles before.

Effective leaders don't gather things just for themselves; they do it in order to give to others.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

I don't think one parent can raise a child. I don't think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.