I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.

I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.