Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out to play.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.

know what you want, work to get it, then value it once you have it.

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

I’m a Black woman. Empowered, powerful, and greatness.

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

One of my beliefs about leadership is it's not how many followers you have, but how many people you have with different opinions that you can bring together and try to be a good listener.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

Good swiping is an art in itself.

She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

I'll always be a foreigner.

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Someday they may cure MS, that idiot thing. It gets in there and they can't get it out.