People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

I wish you wouldn't walk in and out of my mind as though it was a railway station!

I'll never go. How can I? How far would I get without my heart?

When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.

Humility is the displacement of self by the enthronement of God.

It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.