I've never let the criticism deter me.

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.

Education is not limited to any age. You can begin to learn.

Flannel shirts should be outlawed for ex husbands

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

The hardest thing, as a director, is that it's never right. Nothing you do is ever right. It's never exactly how you envision it. Making a movie is about making it better.

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft.

Accept a loss as a learning experience, and never point fingers at your teammates

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money. That may be a wise crack, but I doubt it.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.