When I was your age...I wish I'd known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

Success is something you experience when you act accordingly. Success is not something you have, it's something you do.

It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference....

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right - however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive - and then being able to take people with you.

But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

Men become old, but they never become good.

My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.