Pearl Bailey

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

You must change in order to survive.

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

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.