When you do something because you're angry, you almost always do the wrong thing.

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

To live in peace is gracious.

There is one thing setting a goal and one thing acting on it and another achieving it.

I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

The only thing people fear more than what's going to happen is not getting footage.

We can't win at somebody else's expense. We can only fully be satisfied when the other person's needs are fulfilled as well as our own.

Hear from those who have gone before you.

We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

I think she [Michelle Obama] is reluctant to date someone she's above at work. It's 1989, she's at a law firm, surrounded by mostly white men, and she has to prove herself every day.