It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

It's not impossible for a woman - a Black woman - to become President.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind

It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.

Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

I may forget my dignity, but you may not.

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless... someone's got to make a wake up call.