Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

The good things you do for others when nobody sees you make you a real star in the sky, a shining noble star beyond reach!

Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

The most successful form of correction is when the "other" feels informed versus chastised.

Every time I do a movie, I think it's going to be a huge hit.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

Remember, a small light will do a great deal when it is in a very dark place. Put one little tallow in the middle of a large hall, and it will give a good deal of light.

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

I think the Constitution has been upheld. I think they made the right decision.

When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things.