The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

By choosing a woman to run for your nation's second highest office, you send a powerful signal to all Americans. There are no doors we cannot unlock. We will place no limits on achievement.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

Some leaders are born women.

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren't quite sure if they liked me and they didn't know whether or not that I was sensitive.

If you take advantage of everything that America has to offer, there's nothing you can't accomplish.

Every time a woman runs, women win.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.