On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Magic is the word illiterates use for phenomena they can’t explain.

If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

Heaven...a place where everything that is not music is silence.

What can I tell you I continue to be creative, but have only been commercially successful outside of the U.S.

Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

It's better to be the rejecter than the rejectee.