Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

That worked great! Thank you so much. What next?" "I don't know. I didn't expect you to live through it." "Oh.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

I'm quite happy there is a man in the world who can overcome my record, finally.

Living up to other people's expectations is always difficult. And then you have your own expectations and you set yourself goals that are very, very high. And that's true for everyone.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.