A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
Mitch Albom
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.
I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved... →
Madeleine Albright
If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.
NATO has been a thread throughout my life.
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.