"When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another."

Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then -- we elected them.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.