If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.

If I had been a bricklayer I'd still have been a journeyman.

You need to decide what problems, what opportunities, what projects you're going to work on.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts.

There were around 1,000 stores when I was made president.

I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught.

We've got a low turnover management group and executive group who've grown up in the business.

People who are employed in a way they don't like - my heart cries for them.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger others with patience and others with freedom. The first are culpable the next harmless the last just.

Lots of narcissistic people have helped lots of other people with their music. That's such a narcissistic thing to say! Ha ha!

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he's praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she's sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

You are special and worth being cared about loved and accepted just as you are. Never ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

Mix-tapes are something that have been going on for a while. They've been pretty important to hip-hop for the past 10 years. It's the way we advertise our music to the public for free.

Good Lord - if I couldn't multitask, I don't know what I'd do.

I was a silent actress: a body. I belonged to dreams - to those who can't be broken.

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.

My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened.

Live simply, so that others may simply live.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good.

A Mother is the heart of the home.

In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.

My mother always used to say, 'Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God' - that's what she always said. The same God with different names.

It'll be interesting to raise kids in New York City. I'm from suburbia, so I don't really have any experience with what it's going to be like here.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

I can't be impatient. It would show on the floor, and I won't compete if I'm thinking about getting the ball.