I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I don’t have all the answers.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves – and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

I don’t mind people hating me, because it pushes me.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don’t want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I’m afraid to fail again.