My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Andre Gide

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

W. Somerset Maugham

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.

George M. Adams

If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?

Steven Wright

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Sitting Bull

I will beat thee into handsomeness

William Shakespeare

Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you.

Lenore Wolfe

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Jeffrey McDaniel

Malcolm X made me very strong at a time I needed to understand what I was angry about. He had peace in his heart. He exerted a big influence on me.

Lena Horne

Everything has two sides -- the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Olive Schreiner

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

Gates McFadden

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

James Baldwin