It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.
Freedom lies in being bold.
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Genius is sorrow's child.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
Young heads take example of the ancient.
It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
