Listen to the extremists - changes come from them.

You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up.

Women's place is where they can do the most good.

I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art.

We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.

I want to be remembered as someone who tried their best and hopefully succeeded.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

Just speak yourself into existence. Whatever you want, speak it. You can see it.

I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.

Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.

We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program proven to work —and by that I mean armed security.