45 Quotes by Hillary Rodham Clinton

It’s hard to comprehend the ache in your gut when you see things going wrong and can’t figure out how to fix them.

Just as a household falls apart without emotional labor, so does politics grind to a halt if no one is actually listening to one another or reading the briefings or making plans that have a chance of working.

Tillich says about grace: "It happens; or it does not happen. And certainly it does not happen if we try to force it upon ourselves." This stuck with me. "Grace happens. Grace happens." In other words, be patient, be strong, keep going, and let grace come when it can.

You bear it by working hard to get ready. You bear it by having good people by your side. You bear it by not just hoping but knowing you can handle a lot, because you already have. At least, that's what always worked for me.

Every child needs a champion.

It's like Kahlil Gibran wrote in The Prophet: 'Your children are not your children. They come through you but not from you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

When my husband was a little boy, his uncle Buddy in Hope, Arkansas, liked to say "Anybody who tries to make you mad and story you from thinking is not your friend. There's a lot to be said for thinking.

When my husband was a little boy, his uncle Buddy in Hope, Arkansas, liked to say "Anybody who tries to make you mad and stops you from thinking is not your friend. There's a lot to be said for thinking.

To all the women, and especially the young women, who put their faith in this campaign and in me, I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion. Now, I know we have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling, but some day someone will and hopefully sooner than we might think right now.