Christmas is at our throats again.

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.

Looks are temporary and don't mirror what's inside. And usually, a great looking man is so vain. Maybe most good-looking women are too. I hope I'm not!

What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.

A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.’

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

I am the head of the Socialists, but the party is not my property.

The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.

I'm looking to be shot any time I step out of my car... If I die, it will be in a good cause. I've been fighting for America just as much as the soldiers in Vietnam.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.