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

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.

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

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?

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

My mother became much older when I came out (ed's note: of detention). She had problems with her hearing and high blood pressure. But they still support me.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

For all of us, we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He's in our boat. And when those storms come and those waves (of life) come, He's in the boat with us.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

The path of the Warrior is lifelong, and mastery is often simply staying on the path.

One of the ways to be happy, to be truly happy, is to contribute to a cause that is greater than yourself. And, through Harvard-based research, we can see that happy people live longer.

In the vast, and the minute, we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.