Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

The perfect life is not worth living. There would be nothing to look forward to. The imperfect life is perfect.

Only one word describes a woman widowed for the second time on her wedding night – cursed.

Saddest of all God’s creatures in the world is the religious person who has disciplined himself to outward obedience but who has no inward love to God.

Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.

In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.

We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!