The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle anywhere, any time and with utter recklessness.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

Always ask yourself if you are really serving God

Why women choose to dress like this on a regular basis baffles me. It weighs so much. And then they add those high shoes? I will never understand Ladies, ” Rose commented

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.

I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.

We're all in this together. That's how we campaigned, and that's who we are. This happened because of you. Thank you.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it.

Every time you watch a performance in the theatre, you know that this is just for you, and will never be the same again. It is quite exciting for me.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.