Pearl Bailey

You cannot belong to anyone else until you belong to yourself.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

You must change in order to survive.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

A crown if it hurts us is not worth wearing.

My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.

To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything except perhaps violence.

I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The way we're going to get to understanding is for each man to open his heart and open his mind and look in himself as he looks at his neighbor.

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

The first and worst of all fraud is to cheat ones self. All sin is easy after that.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.