A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well

Kids do say the darndest things

Children have an unerring instinct for knowing when they are being patronized. They go immediately on the defensive against head-patting adults who treat them like strange beings.

No one can keep from aging, but there is no need to grow old.

I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

Diplomacy - the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

I've learned... That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.

Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

Persons drinking coffee, as a general rule, eat less, though coffee, and also tea, have little direct food value; but they retard the waste of the tissues, and so take the place of food.

No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

Beginner's luck is great for beginners.