It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle

Søren Kierkegaard

I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

Shuler Hensley

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.

Philip Emeagwali

My autobiography was simply the story of my life.

Sidney Poitier

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Maria Bartiromo

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

Aldous Huxley

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Maria Monk

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.

Orson Scott Card

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

Lyndon B. Johnson

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Giordano Bruno