Anytime you’re on the podium, it’s good..

Celebrity is very weird..

Life--you have to live it as it comes..

[On being first black woman to earn a PhD in economics and first black woman admitted to Pennsylvania bar:] I never looked for anybody to hold the do….

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you..

He’s more myself than I am.

Europeans are quarrelsome..

Change before you're forced to change..

Can you keep up with the lingo.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work..

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside..

You are what you eat, but eventually you become what eats you..

Whatsoever is, is in God..

We've got a lot of love here, and for me that's what family is all about..

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success..

Temporize not! It is always injurious..

Life: I'll never understand it..

It is not just do do do. It is not just be be be. It is do be do be do..

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially..

I learned very soon to get along by myself..

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time..