The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous.
And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about my life at all.
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
I play around with human things, human relationships and that, and allow that kind of talk to work in that way, on that level.
Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.
People just want to hear some common sense. . . and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.