I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.

I have great respect for the past.

A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.