“I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.”

Life is not easy for anyone. Sometimes you don’t see the challenges on the outside, but every single one of us has both those and everything that goes on inside as well. Give it your all. Dare to be all you can be.

You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.

There are rich people everywhere, and yet they don’t contribute to the growth of their countries.

I don’t ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

Dynamism is a function of change.

I’ve never understood multi-party democracy. It’s hard enough with two parties.

Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

You can’t just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I want to make a difference.

I helped to restore America’s leadership.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

I mean, I’m a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

People should meet an acceptable threshold of appropriateness. But for many women in the public eye, it just seems that the burden is so heavy.

Let’s learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.

The best advice I’ve ever heard about anything is this: Don’t exaggerate! When you work hard, when you sleep long, when you love much, when you are very sad, always remember this advice: Don’t exaggerate!

The best armor is to keep out of range.

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.

It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The winner is the chef who takes the same ingredients as everyone else and produces the best results.

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a much greater; for both these arts are not only true imitations of nature, but of the best nature.

There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.