I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.

Fashion is what others give you, style is what you give yourself

To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

If you don't have passion, change.

We can be beautiful at all ages. Feminine beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, colors, ways.

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year. Style is what you pick out of that fashion...

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

When you are thankful in all things, all of a sudden it's a new day!

There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced.

Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

The sad vicissitude of things.

I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.