experience Quotes

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.