... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless.

And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before in any of your past lives.

I developed a crazy face rash after I got engaged to a guy I must have known somewhere I should not marry. I hadn't articulated this to myself, so my face told the world instead.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.

This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.

Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.