Life's not about expecting, hoping and wishing. It's about doing, being and becoming. It's about t Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.