Appreciate the moment.

Appreciate the moment.

I happen to know a bit about banking.

Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust.

We had a single find of BSE in this country. And we believe that what we're doing is appropriate action taken in an abundance of caution under the circumstances. And I believe it's the right thing to do.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

People walked out on Richard Pryor and he's the funniest man alive.

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

International economic and political sanctions on Iran, as crucial as they may be, are only an initial step, and must be dramatically increased.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

HBO Go is a fantastic way to spend your time.

Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.

The fall of leaves is an emblem of the decline of life.

I'm attracted to soccer's capacity for beauty. When well played, the game is a dance with a ball.

I'm a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I'm not going to get any taller.

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

When I went to college at the University of Nevada back in Las Vegas, I got tricked into singing in choir. The first thing we did was the Mozart 'Requiem.' That was the piece that changed my life overnight.

The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

My husband and I work to keep our weekends pretty unscheduled, which leaves room for spontaneity. I love low-key mornings at home, making breakfast with my kids, snuggling together in bed, and reading the papers.