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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a situation.
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.
People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.
I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White house. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not.
I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.
Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
I see that one part of the education of women is health education. We know that women who are educated have much healthier families.
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
I have the privilege of working on the issues that I choose and the issues that I feel most passionate about. It's been a privilege.
We've gotten commitments from medical schools, from nursing schools, to step up and increase that pool of knowledgeable individuals.
No, I think that if he had known he would be president, he would have started dying his hair, like, 10 years ago. Now it's too late.
Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.
I love talking to people, but what I really love is to feel you're doing something instead of sitting home and twiddling your thumbs.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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.
Throughout my life, I've learned to make choices that make me happy and make sense for me. Even my husband is happier when I'm happy.
It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.
I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?
If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.
Because women don't expect to have heart disease, a lot of times they don't seek help if they have the early symptoms of a heart attack.
Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.
I joke that I stick with the job because it covers my insurance, but the reality is that my career has always been very important to me.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.
Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love....You never know anyone until you marry them.
Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure.
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.
My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn't sustain us.
We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.