We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)

I do like the world quite a lot.

When we learn to enjoy success as well as failure, we will be eternally happy and joyful for sure.

No, " said the cat. "Now, you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

The option of quitting has long been undervalued and underused... Quitters must not be frightened by the potentially cataclysmic outcome of a particular quit.

Every person has the ability to improve the life of someone else.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

A good organizer is key to anyone with a busy social life.

I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.