Routine is really important. However late you went to bed the night before, or however much you had to drink, get up at the same time each day and get on with it.

Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft.

This is two romantic things in a row, so I figure I should praise him accordingly, because the boy responds well to positive reinforcement.

Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

Wherever you put the mind, the body will follow.

I want faith; but I am faithless

My worst fault is my belief that if you put bills unopened behind a picture frame, there is no need to pay them.

You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful.