“Its all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

“When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singingin tune!and the audience loved it.Eartha Kitt, when asked what tricks her poodle did.”

“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.”

“We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is ...”

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”

“Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“We had come to identify who was behind all the prodding and the pushing. Everything that happens to you, is really your very own. Nobody is responsible for you. You are whole and sole responsible f...”

“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.”

“Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.”