Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen. – Madeleine Albright
I cant imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. – Madeleine Albright
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing mens clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am. – Madeleine Albright
The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order. – Madeleine Albright
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,