Most of the things one worries about never happen.

Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.

if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough

A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.

One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss.

Common sense is a tool that isn't in everyone's shed.

I’ve been a nun. A Catholic nun.

There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.

The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

I decided to create a really good laptop recording situation and to learn how to write that way, rather than have the perfect stuff around.

To all the worryworts out there who said super PACs were going to lead to a cabal of billionaires secretly buying democracy: wrong! They are publicly buying democracy.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.