It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.

A fool is someone whose arrogance is only surpassed by his ignorance.

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.

Faith doesn't begin until reason stops.

A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

From adult diapers to bedpans? Move over, Elvis, I’m the afterlife of the party!

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.