we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

I'm smart and I can be really funny and interesting and I can go toe-to-toe with anybody in a conversation.

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking.

Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the laws of their existence.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

The ability to meditate successfully is a very unique skill that will help you better weather the storms of life.