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

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.

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.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind.

There are more teams looking for pitchers than there are pitchers. That's why it's pricey.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

I don't get to go to the super fancy stores unless I am in L.A. so you stay pretty real and normal that way.

We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

Not expecting someone to measure up is an insult

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.