The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Never darken my Dior again!

Love is the divinity of two souls in oneness of spirit!

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

I don't have the time to wish for the things that I positively desire in life because I am always busy working to attain them.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.

Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

Your capacity to receive is based on your hunger to pursue.

We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.