Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, "yes, i've got dreams, of course, i've got dreams." then they put the box away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "how good or how bad am i?" that's where courage comes in.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.