The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

Our predecessors understood that the ties that bind America are far stronger than disagreements over any particular policy and far more durable and profound than any party affiliation.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.

We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction.

Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

My mind is like a room where the door swings free in the breeze, and many visitors come and go and stay and vanish as they will.

Put your past into context, live the first day of your best life.

It's so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.