Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.

... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

He produced a handkerchief—crisply folded—and handed it to her. She took it with silent astonishment. She’d never before known anyone who carried a handkerchief.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Jack Nicholson is fairly gifted. We were at the Sistine Chapel, and everybody went from looking straight up to looking across the room at him.

We acquire a testimony of the principles of the gospel by obediently trying to live them.

That's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race, memory.

When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.

Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.