You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open