"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

If you tell the truth, then you don't have to have a good memory

Your son went into your kitchen and took a kitchen knife.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

The time to change was yesterday; the time to wake up is now.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

I only do one thing at a time; otherwise, I get confused and then I can't trick you.

I couldn't give a rat's tutu about your emotional distress

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.

Pride perceiving humility honourable often borrows her cloak.

All can hear that still small voice within. Try it. Be still and know that the I AM within you is God, the Beloved. Listen... then live by it.

The key to all enlightenment is to have personal experiences in the world of light. All you need to do that is to meditate.

Massage is the study of anatomy in braille.

There's a book called The Women's Room by Marilyn French that was a really big part of my personal feminist awakening growing up that I read.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but the greatest of these was dogs.

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.