I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

I've been extremely fortunate in my life. So I actually believe that I'm the living embodiment of living the American dream.

I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career. Whatever I am today is due to the values my mother instilled in me.

There's nothing worse when you have a job, and you read something, and you're like, 'God. How am I possibly going to make this work?'

A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight.

I wasn't even born when dad swam in the Olympics. I've seen videos of some of his swims, although I don't think I've ever seen him in the Olympics. He's been a massive support right through my career, and it's good to have someone so close to talk to who knows all about what it's like to compete in an Olympic Games.