Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

The deer scent the wolves and stand silent and watchful. They turn and leap off like ballerinas, their plume-like tails raised in alarm.

Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

He who is really kind, can never be unhappy

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech.

Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.