It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

The thing I probably love the most is driving out with the championship trophy under my arm.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?