I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

Women's place is where they can do the most good.

Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

A breath of laughter will blow a Government out of existence in Paris much more effectually than a whiff of cannon-smoke

Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear

If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

The playmakers need to read the game and need to be on the same page as the defenders and the forwards.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.