Be careful what you swallow. Chew!

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me.

If you do movies that are modestly budgeted, the way they finance them is they figure out how they can sell them.

Who wants to live forever?

Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.

The important things to me are your faith, your family and your friends. If you have that, you have everything.

As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.