A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

There is no pure free-market economy.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

History is a better guide than good intentions.

What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.

Power ... is not an end in itself, but is an instrument that must be used toward an end.

When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it.

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'

Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.

Let nothing and nobody break your spirit. Let the unity in the community remain intact.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.

It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.