My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

"A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others."

"My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not."

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.