Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet

When you get real old, honey, you realize there are certain things that just don't matter anymore. You lay it all on the table. There's a saying, 'Only little children and old folks tell the truth.'

Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.

Oh, Mama was a smart woman. It takes a smart woman to fall in love with a good man.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

In our dreams we are always young.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Sometimes the issue isn't that your problems are so big, it's that you see yourself as being so small.

It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

Tina Fey is really cool. She's so mellow and laid back.

That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again.