I'm a hundred-and-one years old and at my age, honey, I can say what I want!

[My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career."... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.

Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

I understand that it's good tactics to categorize me as a close-minded, unobjective extremist, but nobody that respects me has those views.

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

I definitely believe in ghosts.

Once you've got a task to do, it's better to do it than live with the fear of it.

Virtue is not photogenic.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.