Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

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.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

Boards don't hit back.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.