Don't cry for a man who's left you--the next one may fall for your smile.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.

Things'll get worse before they get better.

If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

To be a survivor as an African American man - maybe any man - you have to be pretty tough. Or at least that's what we all understand.