Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Stir the eggnog, lift the toddy, Happy New Year everybody.

Do not just believe in God and neglect the fact that He has an unprecedented belief in you.

My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that there is something called "The Black Experience," though undoubtedly there was one once.

I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.

The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

This is no dress rehearsal.

In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.