What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

If you feel lucky, then you are.

never say never. whoops - said it twice

No one can stop you from shinning if you are standing in your own light.

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

Conformity is deformity

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

The mists of nostalgia color memory.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

Know what you own, and know why you own it.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?