It is always the one closest to you that hurts you the most.

One who walks in blindness and confusion cries out more than one who knows why he is suffering.

When life gives you lemons, sell them and buy a pineapple. How to better your life 101.

Realization hits you several times until you can't get up.

Sometimes you want to curl up and cry until you can cry no more. But you realize that that would leave you exposed and vulnerable. So you turn, and realize that there is no one to turn to.

Innovation is the heart of humanity. We need new ideas and new creativities to help address contemporary issues.

There is absolutely no shortcut to success other than paying the price that its prize demands.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

I have to tell you, our infrastructure, folks, is a mess. America is like a third-world country.

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Whenever we proceed from the known to the unkown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word 'understanding'

The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.