I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not the soul.

Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

I made up my mind when I was 15 years old that I would never smoke or drink. I have kept that pledge to myself, and it was one of the smartest decisions I ever made.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.

Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?