I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

The entire race is usually judged by the actions of one man or woman

The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

I've played everything but a harp.

You can best fight any existing evil from the inside.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

Be brave enough to never yearnFor that you cannot hold closeIn your heart forever.Tread lightly, cherish compassionAnd live in the moment without fear.

An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.

I welcome the signing by the presidential candidates Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani of an agreement on the formation of a government of national unity in Afghanistan.

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organised to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

Foreigners are sending messages to the planets. We are sending rice and cereals to our dead fore-father through the Brahmins. It is a wise deed?

There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?

I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.