I look at you and I see the final triumph of stupidity in the world!

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

Do I remain a revolutionary? Intellectually -- without a doubt. But am I prepared to give my body to the struggle or even my comforts? This is what I puzzle about.

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give an answer, we create one.

The grim possibility is that she who 'hides her brains' will, more than likely, end up with a mate who is only equal to a woman with 'hidden brains' or none at all.

Cry when you must. It relieves the soul of all pain.

Failure is only but a temporary phenomenon.

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

I never heard so much content in so short a period.

One of the most annoying habits of liberals is their tendency to confuse their political agenda with moral virtue.

If people won't spend any money, the government has this moral obligation to do it.

Many people think spirituality has nothing to do with success or accomplishing - that it's something you do with removal, with leaving the world.

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.