A straight dark-green Manchu gown, with black trimmings, is my favorite. For it just about takes off those fifteen pounds I don't need and adds those three inches I do.

I learned that in dealing with things, you spent much more time and energy in dealing with people than in dealing with things.

My remoteness from women's affairs could be seen from my surprise when I heard that needles had holes in them.

Have you ever noticed that life consists mostly of interruptions, with occasional spells of rush work in between?

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

Once you get something, it's awfully tough to take it away.

I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

That cruelest of tyrants - public opinion.

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.