“Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.”

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

At the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

There is no big constituency out there concerned about access restrictions on poor women.

We will all profit from a more diverse, inclusive society, understanding, accommodating, even celebrating our differences, while pulling together for the common good.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

It’s hard not to have a big year at the Supreme Court.

Be independent and be a lady.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

I didn’t change the Constitution; the equality principle was there from the start. I just was an advocate for seeing its full realization.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

A gender line helps to keep women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

I’ve never really been settled. I don’t think I’ve ever known what it was like to be a person that was used to sitting still. I think it’s given me the ability to detach from any situation.

I don’t think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It’s to do with how much anger is in you.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement.

We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.

Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.