“When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.”

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.

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.

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.

A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.

Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.