My favorite question that is asked only of women is, 'What do you do with yourself all day?' The only possible answer is, 'Make nuclear bombs in my bathroom. Just little ones, though.

[On children:] Being built closer to the floor, they can dust the baseboards in half the time.

Life is the only sentence which doesn't end with a period.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

Get busy living or get busy trying. Life will move forward with or without you. The question is

We have to be in the center of action in order not to end up on the sidelines

Most leaders are indispensable but to produce a major social change many ordinary people must also be involved.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.

I think the way NOW characterized Smith Barney is disgraceful. I am appalled that an organization like that would not have reserved judgment (until) making their own investigation.

I can't multiply myself out of a paper bag. But when it comes to roots, I'm your man.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.