Enemies may seek our destruction, but they also keep us on our toes and often help us figure out who we are and what we stand for.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Self pride hinders the soul from flourishing,

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

I want whatever part of you I can have.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.

A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or.... which the narrator is unable to explain.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."

I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.