Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

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.

Be wise enough to forgive but don't be foolish enough to trust again.

Born of the sun they travelled a short while towards the sun And left the vivid air signed with their honour.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.

My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.

Leve fit quod bene fertur onus. The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.