Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

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.

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Thoughts are divine.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.

For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them.

A rising tide raises all boats, but you need a boat to rise with the tide. What does he who does not have a boat do?

I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.

Flattery works like a drug.