It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.

Wasn't that the way of the world, though? Only the strong survived, and the weak perished.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.

We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

One is always half mad when one is shy of people.

The prospects are dim for a society that makes mascots out of the unproductive and condemns the productive.