Quotes from Pearl Bailey

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.

How can you give a man a room in a house and not let him come through the front door?

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.

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

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

No one can figure out your worth but you.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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

I see their souls, and I hold them in my hands, and because I love them they weigh nothing.

The deed of love is stronger than words

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

You must change in order to survive.

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.

People see God every day, they just don't recognize Him.

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

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.