Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives.

I do not innovate. I transmit.

By luck I mean, when opportunity meets preparation.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

Friendships and marriage are far more potent than financial conflicts.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.