It is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights.

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.

The degree of your mindset will confine you - just as the breadth of your open-heartedness will set you free

If one door is closed, find another open door.

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

Of course, your voice always sounds better in the shower for some reason, maybe it's just the octaves or, I don't know, the water, I have no idea.

God is our clothing, that wraps, clasps and encloses us so as to never leave us.

All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter.

I had to will my way through that game. Sometimes, it takes more than talent or more than a 95-mile-an-hour fastball. You have to will it.

People crave a conspiracy for the same reason they crave a god.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?