...nothing is more precious than independence and freedom...

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

He responded with one of those looks of pity and amusement I was by now so used to getting, the kind that implied not only was my fly undone, but that there was nothing to see even if it was.

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

Quoting Nguyen Du - Talent and destiny are apt to feud.

Did we salivate for sadness, or had we only learned to enjoy what we were forced to eat?

Some animals could see in the dark, but it was only humans who deliberately sought out every possible route into the darkness of our own interiors.

While it is better to be loved than hated, it is also far better to be hated than ignored.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

That is what revolutionaries do. We sacrifice ourselves to save others.

...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.

Joy, you are my everything. You are everything that matters to me. Tell me that you understand. Tell me that you feel this, too.

Happiness will be there if you want to be happy.

Healing begins where the wound was made.

There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion.

I'm a role model for lots of young girls.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws.