I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

I love living. I love that I'm alive to love my age. There are many people who went to bed just as I did yesterday evening and didn't wake this morning. I love and feel very blessed that I did. I love, too, that I know a little more today than I did yesterday, or I simply know it more profoundly.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on.

This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.