Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common?

You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Stop scapegoating immigrants[Stop using] outrageous phrases like 'illegal aliens.'

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

As human beings we have vulnerabilities. We also have power, but we can't just be powerful all the time.