I feel sorry for the man who marries you. . . because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
The occupation is really terrible on a variety of levels. It's terrible on the "shooting people and torturing people in prison" level. But I think the thing that is very hard to convey is that it's also this bureaucratic grinding-down and daily humiliation that I think would probably be as horrible as the spectacular violence.
Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
There is more action in some other countries. In Germany, they've called for a very serious inquiry that's discovering more and more. They've just discovered a significant violation of the German Constitution that had been concealed from the Parliament.
I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.