Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

I wouldn’t be caught dead sacrificing myself for this country.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

one loves only form, and form only comes into existence when the thing is born.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

Food is a passion because I basically grew up in a kitchen.

Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.