People are persuaded by reason, but moved by emotion; [the leader] must both persuade them and move them.

There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know that. When you have a black and a white.

Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it.

When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I don't think a woman should be in any government job whatever. I mean, I really don't. The reason why I do is mainly because they are erratic and emotional.

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn't what I meant.

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

Grandma Hutto’s flower garden was a bright patchwork quilt thrown down inside the pickets.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

Without a future well designed we take hesitant steps.

All of us are far richer than we imagine. None of us possesses a life devoid of magic.

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery.