I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Is a tree any less beautiful because it has lost a limb?

I strongly believe in after life because life down here is too costly.

I was raping Frank Herbert, but with love.

If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.

I did a couple of American Express commercials.

My husband always felt that a marriage and career don't mix. That's why he's never worked.

I dont believe in predestination, even though I was raised a Presbyterian.