Do you think that God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself? I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn’t God understand that I just want to be with him?

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.

If you bungle raising children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.

I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.

If you bungle raising your children I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Minimum information given with maximum politeness.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Christmas makes me schmaltzy. I'm proud to be level-headed, even a little tough most of the time. But once a year I like to believe that peace on earth may be possible and calories don't count.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

That's why workers in France like horsemeat, because it's like a male thing that makes you strong. Cow meat is a much more female meat.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

Shouting has never made me understand anything.