The families of rabbits or woodchucks will eat the salad greens just before they are ready to be picked; I plot ways to kill these animals but can never bring myself to do it.

There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

People don't make changes because things are wonderful.

I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.

People only say I’m angry because I’m black and I’m a woman.

A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.

...yet a memory cannot be trusted, for so much of the experience of the past is determined by the experience of the present.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Consistency builds trust, confidence builds character.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.

My life is my message.

What we Republicans should stand for is growth in the economy. We ought to make the pie higher.

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved.

Going after the QB is like playing king of the mountain. When you get the QB, you're on top of the mountain.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.