A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden.

It a great miracle that I am alive.

Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.