Pearl Bailey

“Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.”

“You must change in order to survive.”

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”

“When you're young, the silliest notions seem the greatest achievements.”

“To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.”

“We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.”

“People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.”

“The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.”

“There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.”

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”

“A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.”

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”

“There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.”

“I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.”

“A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.”

“Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.”

“You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.”

“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”

“Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.”

“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”