Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.

If I had not try and taken chances, I would have miss many great opportunities in life.

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

I wasn't born a first lady or a senator. I wasn't born a Democrat. I wasn't born a lawyer or an advocate for women's rights and human rights. I wasn't born a wife or a mother.

Early in my career, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.