My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

...E non aspettarti una strada senza ostacoli, senza quel fuoco la tua luce si spegnerebbe. Usa la tempesta per liberarti".

Life is an illusion of the reality which we want or wish

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

People ask me what makes a good funeral, and I tell them the most important thing is your man in the casket. If you have a man of substance in there, you have the makings of a first-class funeral.

Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.

When you take a job, you don't just accept the pats on the back. You have to accept the kicks in the pants.

It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.

What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask.