I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

Till when will you struggle to make your place in this world? Open your eyes, you already have. Now go ahead and make use of it!

Music escapes from words: that is its purpose, and its majesty.

Apparently the rarest commodities on earth are truth and honesty.

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.

Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

Power is seldom innocent, and envy is the yokefellow of eminence.

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding very little happening.