When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

I pick my technology like I picked my husband. It has to complement, not complicate, my life.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.