Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

I didn't hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

Do real boys actually call girls baby? I don't have enough experience to know. I do know that if a guy ever called me baby, I'd probably laugh in his face. Or choke him.

I want to be the white man's brother not his brother-in-law.

Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

Life's bloomy flush was lost.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

I tell people if it aint broke don't fix it.

You're always being led to your highest good, as long as you have the courage to listen.

Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.