What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

Opportunities are not offered. They must be wrested and worked for. And this calls for perseverance... and courage.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive.

I don't mind if my life goes in the service of the nation. If I die, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.

Women sometimes go too far, it's true. But it's only when you go too far that others listen.

To become capable, one must have faith in oneself.

For dear me, why abandon a beliefMerely because it ceases to be true

Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

NATO is obsolete, because it's not taking care of terror.

how much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

I've been very active in Missouri.

In America everyone's fast.

I love the role that men play in our lives.