I would like to make one thing quite clear. ... I never explain anything.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

There is nothing to lose by trying. Define new ways of doing things. Never underestimate the power of an action.

My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his oratory but because his vision was very much the reality that I'd come to take for granted.

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy,--by consulting the oracular dead.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

Whenever we just try to please ourselves, all we do is cover up another window in the little house we're stuck in.

If only those old walls could talk...how boring they would be.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

I like my father being the boss in my life