A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.

She carries chaos like an overcoat.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

People's fates are simplified by their names.

Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Mistakes aren't fatal; they are merely the portals of discovery.

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

I still have a Lydia Ko-signed golf ball in my sock drawer that I'll keep for a while.