I would not have imagined being asked to be Secretary of State, it was a great honor to serve with President Obama in his cabinet.

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.

How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

Talent alone can't give you a gold medal.There is practise, there is hard work and there is a will to succeed.

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

Action is movement with intelligence

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.