As love and joy flood our streets today, it is hard to imagine how anyone could deny the full protection of our laws to any of our fellow Americans - but there are those who would.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

A life of devotion to one's passion gives meaning to life.

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

I consider myself always a humorist. And I think anybody who tells jokes or makes people laugh is humor.

Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.

When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

It is not possible to know how much is just enough, until we have experienced how much is more than enough. (64)

Soul ain't nothing but a feeling.