If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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.

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.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Forewarned, forearmed. To be prepared is half the victory.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.