I believe love produces a certain flowering of the whole personality which nothing else can achieve.

People are more than just the way they look.

Madeleine L'Engle

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

Audre Lorde

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Michelangelo

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Jane Austen

Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, God love admiration.You saying God vain? I ast.Naw, she say. Not vain, just wanting to share a good thing. I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.What it do when it pissed off? I ast.Oh, it make something else. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Alice Walker

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

Gore Vidal

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.

Mary Antin

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Anon.

Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.

Yoko Ono

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth

William Shakespeare

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

Florence Nightingale

You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Ralph Richardson, "Time Magazine