Every morning I am a beginner.

Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.

People—especially men—don't always know what they want. You try, and if it doesn't work, then you may qui

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

When people are not given an option by some secret scoring system, it's very hard to complain, so they often don't even know that they've been victimized.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there.

The child needs a helping hand or he'll grow up to be an angry young man some day.

Though it be said that faith cometh by hearing, yet it is the Spirit that worketh faith in the heart through hearing, or else they are not profited by hearing.

When in doubt, make a western.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.