Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

Is he weeping?" said the one with the softest heart.

Once we learn to control our mind, It becomes easy to control our life.

What men call friendship is no more than a partnership a mutual care of interests an exchange of favors - in a word it is a sort of traffic in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity.

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

After Andy Warhol died, it left a dark cloud over N.Y.C. nightlife.