“There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn’t a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?”

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn’t love me!

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.

Paris is always a good idea.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.

True friends are families which you can select.

I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and have the possibility to love.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong.

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

For me, revolution is around young people with no skills, college education, and coming from everywhere having an economic impact on an entire system which no one notices.

Take a better stand. Put money in my mom’s hand. Get my daughter this college plan, so she don’t need no man.

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you’re a kid, you want to be just like your dad.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.