I have to admit like so many women I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters not as sparring partners.

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

If I became a philosopher if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting it's all been to seduce women basically.

We thought because we had power we had wisdom.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Wisdom too often never comes and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates and wealth may seek us but wisdom must be sought.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment endowed with senses memories emotions thoughts and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool the truest heroism is to resist the doubt and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when it be obeyed.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

I'd been a wedding singer through college but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad I thought 'Oh God if this is all I do I'll never be able to live with myself.'