Charles de Montesquieu

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I don't like to get in front of people.