“I must have books everywhere. They’re the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.”

You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

I obviously don’t feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don’t judge people who choose to have it, but I don’t want to erase who I am.

Sleep is easier to make up than a unique evening.

Some fairy tales end with the girl marrying the prince some start there.

You know, there’s a thing about the woman across the room. You see the woman across the room, you think, She’s so poised; she’s so together. But she looks at you and you are the woman across the room for her.

Attitude is everything.

Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, ‘I’m so glad I’m me!’

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

Don’t talk about your diet. It’s just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

I don’t care about fashion, I care about women.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

If you’re not sure what to wear, if you don’t know how everyone else is going to be, then just be at your most beautiful.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

The easier your hair is to manage the happier you’ll be with it and the prettier you’ll feel.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

Oh, you who are trying to learn the marvel of Love through the copy book of reason, I’m very much afraid that you will never really see the point.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Elvis Presley is all there is. There just ain’t no more. Everything starts and ends with Elvis. He wrote the book. He is everything to do and not to do in the music business.

This is beautiful indeed; the colored people have given this to the head of the government, and that government once sanctioned laws that would not permit its people to learn enough to enable them to read this book.