some people are democrats by choice, and some by necessity.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

I am not a woman staying at home.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Belafonte sent his people to pick me up and I went back and shook his hand, then went back to my little flat. I was very happy to have met a president of the United States - little me!