Everyone can have a bad day.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. Contraception doesn't define a woman.That's - doesn't define our views. We're so much smarter and broader than that.

For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.

I am the queen of mediocre, the king of nothingness

I'm sure anyone who likes a good crime, provided it is not the victim.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

No one else can think or feel for you .. it's YOU .. ONLY YOU.

Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea.

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.