In a sport that demands compulsion, sometimes the hardest task is having the confidence to rest.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.

Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons.

I don't want to understand Facebook.

Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.