Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

You don't run for public office unless you have a specific vision. You are driven by ideas and a vision.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

Nothing could be more personal than a tape.

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

...and all the people said 'What a shame that he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man?

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

I think you’re never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

The best time of my life has been the three instances where I have been there for the birth of my children. That is, nothing [else] has ever come close.