Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Today's wars are about oil. But alternate energies exist now - solar, wind - for every important energy-using activity in our lives. The only human work that cannot be done without oil is war.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

Sometimes, walking with a friend, I forget the world.

Women should stick together. Didn’t you learn anything yet?

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

In hindsight, events seem logical

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

World Class leaders know the secret to motivating themselves and others is discovering what they will fight for when the going gets rough.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

Just because you're in the market for a minivan doesn't mean you can't test drive a hotrod.

The most successful scientists are not the most talented. But they are the ones who are impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

Tom is back on a flight at 6:15 P.M. That is 6:15. Do you get it? Not 6:00 P.M. but 6:15 P.M. And do you know how many minutes that is? I do. I have also become a Time Lord.

Understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.