"Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray."

“I'm a Third World person. I grew up in an occupied zone [Greenville, South Carolina] and had to negotiate with the superpower, really the colonial power.”

“I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.”

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

Source : Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.222, Vintage

“One does not learn how to die by killing others.”

Source : "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by A. S. Kline, (Book IX: Ch. 4), 1848 - 1850.

“Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.”

“Friendship is something that is cultivated.”

“The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.”

“Health and education are always issues.”