My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.

I'm concerned about truth and credibility in government.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

You can't be too right too soon and win elections.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

These days and times you can't do eclectic records. In the '60s you could, but not anymore.

I get a wild hair up my nose and I want to go.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

Running has been great for keeping me fit throughout my acting career.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.