We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground.

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.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

The energy that is necessary for us to achieve the goal is spent on meaningless anxiety

My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save the baby.

If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.

I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Nature can provide for the needs of people; [she] can't provide for the greed of people.

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

Distraction is the main problem for us all - what the Buddha called the monkey mind. We need to tame this monkey mind.