"A resilient spirit knows that the melody of life is composed of both highs and lows."

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."

"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable."

"There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets."