Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.

I don't think in business it matters whether you're a man or a woman if you can do your job and have a brain.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Success only breeds a new goal

At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

I didn't forget your breakfast. I didn't bring your breakfast. Because you didn't eat your din-din.