Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.