There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

If you rest, you rust.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre.

Love is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

There is only one terminal dignity - love.

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.

I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees.

Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.