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

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?

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.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

He was stupid, yes, in the particular way that very clever people can be stupid.

Life is based on leverage. The more you know how to leverage life, the more successful you will become.

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion, and it is India that shall be again the spiritual mother of the world.

A woman in love is helpless.

Im always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.