The only country that can stop North Korea is China.

I encourage people to find and use the power of their voices just as much when I do not agree with those voices as when I do agree with them.

As I said, my parents loved that when they came to America, if you worked hard, the only things that could stop you were the limits you placed on yourself.

I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition.

Human rights is a big important part of how to prevent conflict in the first place if we focus on how the governments are treating their people.

Do things that are uncomfortable to do. I say that because women tend to step back from things that they don't know about. And the second, most important, one is, push through the fear.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

We don't have unions in South Carolina because we don't need unions in South Carolina.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

The public likes to think that women only care about contraception. Contraception doesn't define a woman.That's - doesn't define our views. We're so much smarter and broader than that.

A smile is your best beauty asset.

One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when I opened my eyes, the world was the same.

To live, pray. To learn, read. To love, give. To listen, pay attention. But to be wise, apply all that you have acquired

I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new things and expand the limits of poetic form.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

I will never forget what happened here tonight.people I went to school with will never forget.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.