A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.

Charge hell with a bucket of water.

Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.

There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.

We have to learn how scientists arrive at decisions. Once you use the scientific method, it doesn't mean that your decisions will be perfect. They'll be far more accurate than just opinions.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.

With what shift and pains we come into the World we remember not; but 'tis commonly found no easy matter to get out of it.