I'm more old-fashioned than a lot of women...I don't view abortion as just a nothing. It is stopping the process of life.

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

I hope it will come as no surprise that I have something to say.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

There is a value in taking a stand whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not it is a risky thing to do.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.

Don't be fooled by your emptiness, there's so much more room for happiness.

The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.

Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.