To be great is not a word but work that makes a word.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else's life.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words.

Earn Nicely, spend wisely and you will live happily.

Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Hope lies in what action we take.

It is in the nature of the mind that the more we cultivate and familiarize ourselves with positive emotions, the more powerful they become.

The future can be different if we choose to make it so.

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

You don't know now and after and before who has watched you and who is watching you and who will continue doing that.

It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people.

When I am making a film, I know what to do in front of a camera. What frightens me are the scenes with dialogue. Sometime they really want me to speak perfectly and I don't like that.

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen, nor never shall be.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.