He's going to be receptive to the views of other partners and to changes, ... He's a superb business lawyer. That's much more important in terms of managing a law firm and dealing with the law firm's clients.

He's going to be receptive to the views of other partners and to changes. He's a superb business lawyer. That's much more important in terms of managing a law firm and dealing with the law firm's clients.

Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.

Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.