When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.

It is not easy to find something that will intrigue and bind your interest and enthusiasm. This you must seek for yourself.

Accomplish something every day of your life.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way 'round.

There is love and then there is fluff. Nothing else.

She was only a dew drop that sparkled a short while under the brilliant rays of heaven's sunlight.

Believe yourself again and again to find yourself.

When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light—so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.

I have led the way for moving women from traditional roles to strategic positions and inspired girls and women throughout Africa to seek leadership positions.

I'd always rather be lucky than smart.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

The truth is, I've denied it for years, but I love deconstructing comedy.

Life never gives you what you deserve but what you decided.