Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Feeling insecure is good for you. It forces you to do something better, drives you to use all your talents.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Don't use men to get what you want in life. Get it yourself.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Despair sees no hope, while hope sees no despair.

People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

But it was an ending.