Competence is a great creator of confidence.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Perfection can hide a lot of warts.

Civilians are like beans

Reprove your friends in secret praise them openly.

We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.

Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"

If you complain about the world moving too fast, slow down.

I mean *sigh* Sickening eyes I can tell that you're in touch with your feminine side