It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Quality is all about taking care of the details.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

We are a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.

The only way to survive is to intently focus on how the art world operates. Once you understand how things work, you can find a solution to the problems you are facing.

I think it's my energy and love of life that has been the real key to my fame and success.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?