This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey!

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

A girl's legs are her best friends... but even the best of friends must part.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

I've accomplished everything a person can accomplish on a basketball court, but I never thought about the future when I was younger. I never made plans for the next stage in my life.

I'll see something or hear something. Sometimes, it can be a color. Or a piece of music. Or an image of some kind. I see something, and it has huge emotional weight, although I have no idea why.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

People who attend support groups who have been diagnosed with a life-challenging illness live on average twice as long after diagnosis as people who don't.

Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

Thoughts not only manifest into reality, they define it.

Inspiration is the key to everything.

Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that arent as self deprecating where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

People who enroll themselves in the schools of pride eventually graduate with and high degree of fall. Failure employs prides scholars. Get rusticated now

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

In the childhood memories of every good cook, there's a large kitchen, a warm stove, a simmering pot and a mom.

When I complete a novel I set it aside, and begin work on short stories, and eventually another long work. When I complete that novel I return to the earlier novel and rewrite much of it. In the meantime the second novel lies in a desk drawer.

All history, and most especially the history of the 20th century, argues against placing ideas in the saddle and allowing them to ride mankind. Too often, they end up riding individual men and women into mass graves.

It's all grist to the mill

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

By all means, have you give great attention to your arithmetic, as its advantages are so many and important.

I think I'm like most people - we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don't deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it's very hard not to be fearless.

When you connect with that love and that compassion, that’s when everything unfolds.

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming it is the stronger when it comes and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Grace is not opposed to effort its opposed to earning.