The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

No decision should be made on an empty shopping bag.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

This criticism is ridiculous. The twenty-five hundreth anniversary celebration cost me less than the inauguration of each new president of the United States.

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.