Loved people are loving people.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Live each day with ecstatic serenity

God does watch over us and does notice us, but it usually through someone else that he meets our needs.

If you think shy, you act shy.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

... our reality teaches us that, as Christians, we must create a Church of the poor, that we don't need a Church imposed from outside which knows nothing of hunger.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God.

The most dangerous place is in your safety zone.

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