I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

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.

Only sweet people with good virtues can go to fairyland. Those who treat others meanly and without respect can never go there.

Life is beautiful for those who can see the beauty in the midst of the ugliness.

I think the biggest influence on the book, as far as the humor goes, comes, at least indirectly, from the men I worked with in the paper mill. Some of them could make a dog laugh.

Sleep in a world, your final sleep has woken

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Never Hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.

Those whose purpose does not match yours are not wrong; they have their mission, and finding their own purposeful way may involve many detours and acts that seem destructive.

I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends