Everything is funny from some angle, I assure you it is. It's just a matter of where you're standing.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

...but hope seduces like a silver tongue, double-edged like a dagger that cuts both ways.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?

Work is love made visable.

My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

If you're going to write about the river, you've got to get in.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.