Your time, energy and words.Three things you can never get back once they've been exchanged. Choose wisely.

You could spend a lifetime waiting for someone to love the real you but if you don't know who you really are, you are wasting your time.

You cannot force a person to respect you like you cannot buy love but you can refuse anyone who doesn't do these things freely a pass into your life.

You cannot water your own plant if you are waiting on other people's approval to do so. Stop living your one and only life waiting for validation, start seeking your own inner voice to guide you.

Master the art of learning when it is time for you to let go of dead situations. Letting go doesn't always mean the end, sometimes it is the start of something beautiful.

You deserve the same love that you are willing to give

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

Unless we retain a vibrant desire to be free, and unless we understand and practice the principles that give life to essential freedoms, we have little reason to hope they will endure.

Work is a great thing. This is something my father taught me. He didn't want me to grow up to be somebody's wife.

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

I have certain strong interests that fill my life as well

I have a passion for life that allows me to make the most of my days and fill them with work and play.

Clang Clang Rattle Bing Bang, Gonna make my noise all day!

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.