I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

One faerie - and then we were free. Just on more swing of my arm. And maybe one more after that - maybe one more swing, up and inward and into my own heart.

She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.

You carry your past with you even if you don't remember any of it.

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in the larger arena.

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

I don't persuade to suicide.

If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.