Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

I’m a can-do girl.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on a track that leads towards citizenship, and if that happened, then they wouldn’t be prey to the employers who say, ‚We want you because we know that you work for a salary we could not lawfully pay anyone else.‘

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don’t want to get malaria.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.

Change alone is unchanging.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Character is power.

For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

It’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Error is always more busy than truth.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

We must have government that builds stamina into communities and men. That makes men instead of mendicants.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.