Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.

I don't have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.

If you can find something you love, go for it everyday of your life, and it would be really good to you.

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

You can have anything you want

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon.

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

What the media misses is the amount of anger that's out there. Trump didn't create that.

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the company basically dismissed you.

I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

We are called to love even in the loneliness, worship even in the tears and follow even in the darkness.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.