For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.

I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.' My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.

No matter how old we get, life's always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you've learned ten times before.

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

I tilt my face up and inhale, willing my surroundings to enter me somehow and to remind me how small I am.

The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

A creative train of thought is set off by: the unexpected, the unknown, the accidental, the disorderly, the absurd, the impossible.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

At last my love has come along. My lonely days are over and life is like a song.

Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad.

If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.