Be careful when choosing what you're proud of--because the world has every intention of using it against you

If we only fell in love with people who were perfect for us...then there wouldn't be so much fuss about love in the first place.

It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.

If you could relive one year in your life, which one would it be? [...] The upcoming one.

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.

I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weather wane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.

Slurring is the cursive of speech.

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.

Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. Unfortunately, it's also one of the hardest things in the world to hold on to, and one of the easiest things to throw away.

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

The players I respected most were the toughest players, not those who talked a good game or blocked a shot and acted like a fool.

Disease, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere, or a cataclysmic earthquake, I'd accept with some despair, but no, you sent us Congress! Good God, Sir, was that fair?

Refuse to be scared in this lifetime.