Every women’s civil rights struggle around the world, in a democratic or totalitarian country, whether Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or Jew – is a struggle of all of ours.

Democracy is only as moral and just as those in power, and only as wise as the citizens who elect them.

Everyone is born an artist. What differentiates us are the variations of creativity.

I don't identify with being old, I identify with being alive – which probably means I'm old.

Life is 99 percent attitude. Yet for the majority of people, it is the remaining one percent that dominates 99 percent of their life.

Anger is energy: If you hold on to it, it’ll infect you. But if you channel it into something positive — great things are possible.

If I am less kind than I was yesterday, then I am failing as a human being.

When it's easier to buy a cache of assault weapons than cast a vote — expect massacres to be the norm.

Ironically, the resilience and greatness of America may never be accentuated more than by its ability to withstand the unprecedented corruption of Donald Trump.