What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Killing more people won't help matters.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

Your identity is no more than the memory of your mind, and the time you learn to consciously look into your memories of the past, the first time you realize that nowhere you exist in your mind.

Lean on God, and he leans on you fulfilling his love on Earth.

Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

This is the day which the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone.

Do not cut lose from your longings - for what are we without our longings?

No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

I support the death penalty and will continue to do that.