If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Many creative minds, just like many light bulbs, lit up simultaneously, could lead to brainstorming and breakthrough innovation.

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

It's just accidental, just temporary. Until the next accident sends me somewhere new. That's how life works.

Awaken to your own internal power, to your own connection to the Divine, and act on what you are inspired to do

Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride

I'm not a huge gym person, so I try to stay away from the gym. But I love to run on the beach or go for a walk. It's better than riding a stationary bike.

When you slick back your hair, you get a really good idea of just how melon-like your head actually is.

I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

Intensity is the price of excellence.