"Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men."

"Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize."

"I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak."

"For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object."

"There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope."

"I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success."

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

"I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time."