In married life three is company and two none.

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.

But great tragedy is universal

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

I'm just an average woman with average concerns.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

Don't be silly. I'll write you twice a week.

Recently somebody said, "Hey, you lost weight," and I said, "Yeah, thirty-five pounds and three and a half billion dollars." So I'm quite a bit lighter and more flexible than I was.