If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.

If you make sleeping your hobby then poverty becomes your best companion

Always distance yourself from gossip, because it is the worst form of self-disruption.

The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

A New York friend said that visiting the South reminded her of nothing more than being in high school again.

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.

I have orders not to come back until I'm a thousand percent.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.