If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.

In all climates under all skies man's happiness is always somewhere else.

Take pleasure in your dreams relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Yeah, I'm not really a morning person.

Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

I think that, by comparison with $2,000 bottles of grand cru Burgundies, first-rate barolos, which sell for under $100, are undervalued ten-fold.

The secret of success is to get up early, work late and strike oil.

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.