Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't expe….

The bread and the pastry, the cheeses and wine, and the sugar go into the Supper of the lamb because we do. It is our love that brings the city home.….

To be motivated to sit at home and study, instead of going out and playing, children need a sense of themselves over time--they need to be able to pi….

I hope we have American-topias..

I have always found it a testament to the importance of painting that the first thing many people do when their home is on fire is to grab their pain….

You take what you can get, I reckon. You take what you can get..

I didn't decide to start to playing piano until I was almost 13 years old when my friends and I thought it would be fun to start a band. None of us a….

Power is intoxicating..

I'm so not a celebrity..

In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the w….

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home..

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay..

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward ….

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and d….

As a tennis player you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the ….

I've always been a businesswoman..

New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from ….

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad..

Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we ….

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies an….

The way to build long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs..