I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers

Your reaction towards your inception will determine the input towards your progression

If it's a nod from society you're looking for, run a marathon. But if it's a life-changing experience of personal strength and perseverance that you want, finish an ultra.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

I believe in the autobiographical concept only to the degree that I am able to put onto film all that's passing through my head at the moment of shooting.

I don't think anybody planned for me to be an actor. I didn't. I didn't know this was what I was going to do.

Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.