The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not...
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I...
I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
Someday someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
The brain is wider than the sky.
My motto: sans limites.
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never any of us are more than one-fourth...
What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe tha...
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible that peace is indivisible that economic prosperity is indivisible.
I always ask the question "Is this what I want in my life?"
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!
He who demands little gets it.
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