Sadness is not the beginning or end of a process, but the lag between pleasure and happiness.

Do not let your good ideas to spend your brain energy, do it with all the effort because the shadow of the success can become a reality only with hard work.

Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother

If you want something you have never had, you must do something you have never done.

The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.

The Decision...I wiped my hands on my pinaforenow sullied and stainednot crisp or pressedas it had been before...

...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).

I never really worked with Chris Farley, I hung out with him, but I had plans, I had big plans, movies, and I was in no hurry.

In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.

Everything about us black people is complicated, us being here, being a minority, being a woman, all those things are complicated.

I say, 'Why not' to everything.

I think there's an intricacy in doing something that's meant to look really simple and having it actually be quite complicated.

Let me tell you that I love the United States.

When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.