How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Adventure, without it, why live?

If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

As unmarried business women we must constantly use our opportunities in business in such a way that we are prepared for the marriage which may be ours tomorrow.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.

Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.

Persons who insist to themselves that under one set of conditions only can they lead interesting and satisfying lives lay themselves open to bitter disappointments and frustrations.

Who we are’ and ‘what is our own’ that we have to understand

If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.

The President needs me at the White House. It's autumn, you know, and the leaves need raking.