It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.

I see my body as an instrument rather than an ornament.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

To me the black black woman is our essential mother the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair almost entirely of our future as a people.

If we are suffering illness poverty or misfortune we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too we know it is false, so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Fun is like life insurance, the older you get the more it costs.

If we can clean up our world I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.

Happiness and peace do not follow when man is fed well clothed well housed well and educated up to a good standard and employed under comfortable conditions with no injury to health or security.

Because I think every child star suffers through this period, because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow and they want to keep you little forever.

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