"Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal."

"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."

"I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity."

"We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace."

"Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."

"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

"Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."