Learn to listen with your fingers.

Learn to listen with your fingers.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

I'm kind of a more sunshiny person myself.

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister.

Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable.

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Barack Obama is an economic patriot.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

I never even thought about being an actor. Somebody asked me if I'd like to learn the craft, and I said, 'Okay.' I was a gymnast in a show at that time, and somebody asked me afterwards one night. I performed as a gymnast for nine years, and then I did acting after that.

If we want to take a bunch of phrases and run them through a Google and say 'Hey, who else has said them,' I can come up with the list in five minutes.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

Jealousy is the worst trait in any person.

My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.

Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.

England used to be known for making beautiful things. Then we became the rag trade, known for our street fashions, which were picked up around the world. I want us to be recognized for quality. We have the hands to make the clothes. What we need is the motivation.

The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.