A man's home is his castle, and his wife is the janitor

Military intelligence is a meaningless phrase because the two words are mutually exclusive.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

My husband believed that all women who want to should be free, equal, independent, creative, well informed, and lead stimulating, interesting lives. Except me.

People of character don’t allow the environment to dictate their style.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

A woman can do anything she wants as long as she doesn't do anything she wants! She can go anywhere she likes as long as she stays put!

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

Fortunately, like all good things, Christmas Day does come to an end.

Life's a wondrous journey, don't take it for granted.

It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

Bad and worse and worst makes a beggar's choice.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

No institution will go through fundamental change unless it believes it is in deep trouble and needs to do something different to survive.

You give before you get.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.