"When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was."

"If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators."

"Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home."

"The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961."

"I'd say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that's the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools."

"If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons."

"I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid."

"People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren."

"I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates."

"Democracy is the best revenge."

"As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother."

"Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism."

"Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy."

"I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison."

"My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics."

"Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance."

"Extremism can flourish only in an environment where basic governmental social responsibility for the welfare of the people is neglected. Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism."

"A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism."

"Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power."

"Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all"

"I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything."

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

"We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves."

"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next"

"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."

"The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''."

"It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk."

"Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages."

"In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands"

"All words are pegs to hang ideas on."

"It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices"

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"There never was a person that did anything worth doing who did not really receive more than he gave"

"Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law"

"A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?"

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

"The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day."

"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."

"Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments."

"It is not the going out of the port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast."

"The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy."

"There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure"

"To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself."

"America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought."

"I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career."

"The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes."

"The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress."

"Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure."

"Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies."