If we are wise, we never leave school.

Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental, moral and spiritual asphyxiation, and sometimes death; death to energy and all growth.

Optimism can be prescribed and applied as a medicine, and is a remedy in proportion to its purity and the wisdom displayed in its use.

Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death death to energy and all growth.

Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.

I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: "Last Girl Before Freeway."

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I made a hook.'

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

The most fitting occupation for a civilized man is to do nothing.