Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

Doesn't love have to be tested by reality and time, or else isn't it only a dream?

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

I think of being an actor as a blue-collar profession.

For many of us, the road is a difficult one, but the path is always there for us to follow, no matter how many times we may fall.

I think fashion is fashion: Sometimes you dress people that you don't know, and sometimes you dress people that you actually know.

Realize How Little you Need in Order to be Satisfied and at Peace.