Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

No good deed goes unpunished.

You need fire, conviction, to write. You can't write out of indifference.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C.

Where you stand should not depend on where you sit.

Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.

Its not like I have all the answers.

I do not hope for what I cannot have! I do not cling to things I cannot keep!

Customers buy 1/4 holes, not 1/4 bits.