“Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”

“If you are going to think black think positive about it. Don't think down on it or think it is something in your way. And this way when you really do want to stretch out and express how beautifu...”

“For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman as a human being and even female-was when I was singing.”

“Who I am is the best I can be.”

“The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”

“If I do have some success I'd like to enjoy it for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise?”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try...”

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”