If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

If you tell me that there are obstacles in the way of your ambition that make it impossible to pursue, then I know it's not a real ambition. There are always obstacles. The 'perversity of events,' as someone once called it, is always ready to lick us. Events are never right for achieving what we most want to achieve. If this were not so, there would be no real fun in being 17 -- or even in being alive.

Politicians aren't any more wicked than other citizens but the situation in which they are placed warps their judgment.

There is no danger is letting people have their say. ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

We cannot legislate equality but we can legislate ... equal opportunity for all.