Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom, security, and the enjoyment of opportunity.

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.

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.

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.

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

Concentrate and complete the journey.

Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.

We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different

Problems forges you to be more refined person.

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

I learned you have to fight for yourself in the picture business.