Instead of fearing what might happen if I failed, I should be excited about what could happen if I succeeded!

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

A photograph is a souvenir of life!

We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others.

Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

I taught myself the first year course while I was on the dole, then moved to London to do an MA at SOAS, which led straight into a PhD.

Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.

Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have…

The price one pays for having a kind man at one’s elbow.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.

There's a thing you confront when you're going into something new and you come to this sort of abyss, and then you push yourself. It makes you try different things.

So, but I've always been very realistic about what it is when you're in the public eye.

Trash has given us an appetite for art.

But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.

Blacks don't square dance. If you see a black person square dancing, it is definitely the seventh sign.