You know, we've been married for 22 years ... and I have learned a long time ago that the only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it.

Don't let anybody tell you it's corporations and businesses that create jobs.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, a guide and pillar of stability for many of our people.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely - and the right to be heard.

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history books.

The kingdom of God is a fragment of heaven

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

I'm not usually in a talkative mode.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.