I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

Isaiah taught me that the Lord is very persistent with his people.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

Probably the greatest writer of westerns himself was Homer. His character were never all good or all bad. They're half and half, these characters, as all human beings are.

A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.