Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

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.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here.

We often prefer love for humans to love for God.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

I was addicted to playing music.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.