It takes at least one to make a marriage.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

Most of us have the tools we need, we're just not sure how to use them.

All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.