“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.

The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.

There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Peace is not a spectator sport.

Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.

I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.

Until I am carried out, I will carry on.

Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.

Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.

First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.

Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.

The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.

Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.

Be faithful that your authentic power is all you need to truly share your light with the world.

Lately I’ve been running on faith.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.

Have Faith. Where’er thy bark is driven, – The calm’s disport, the tempest’s mirth, – Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.

Somehow you arrive right where life needs you to be, because you have faith.

You’ll hunt me. You’ll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that’s what needs to happen. Because sometimes truth isn’t good enough. Sometimes people deserve more. Sometimes people deserve to have their faith rewarded.

Scriptures – The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.