It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Humility is realm of a humble heart.

What's ment to be will always find a way

Africa has decided to take matters of instability into its own hands.

I don't wish my career on anyone.

I have a great family by the way, but you need to find people who can pull something out from you that might be otherwise unseen.

Salvation was universally considered to be much more becoming in women than in men.

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

The teacher left her wisdom, in the minds of lots of children, and did her best to give them all a better start.

I'm a fan of the Strokes, so my big fantasy was that one day I would get to sing with them.

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.