PEARL BAILEY

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

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

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

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

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

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

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 must change in order to survive.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.