Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Happiness is something that multiplies when it is divided.

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly

Don't forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy Skies.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them. But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need.

I've been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think, "Can't they tell? "—Nita, September 18, 1984

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

Just don't be surprised if while you are looking to the heavens, I am looking to you. You, my dear Mrs. Hastings, are all the beauty, guidance, and light I will ever need.

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.

I don't know if it's how I speak or what it is about me that presents that sort of label, but I don't know how many times I have to be out in public with a girlfriend to stop that from being said.

To any white body receiving the light from the sun, or the air, the shadows will be of a bluish cast.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.