If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

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.

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, but westward, look, the land is bright.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.

This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs.

There are moments where the mighty death feels itself desperate too! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments!

Truth is not afraid of questions.

Any man who thinks he knows the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.