My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid. ' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave.
Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation. . . It must be possible for an empirical or scientific system to be refuted by experience.
Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.