I like to move fast, and wearing high heels was tough, and low heels with a skirt is unattractive. So pants took over.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Build your self in the Holy Faith.

BE CAREFUL, OR BE ROADKILL!

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear

I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.

Ah, the first step in humility: Listening.

It wasn't about mechanics; it was about a feeling, wanting to give someone something, which in turn was really gratifying. That really resonated for me.