God preserve me from idiots and men in love, which is the same thing.

One seldom loves people for their virtues.

The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

If a child is loved, he feels worthy of love in the future

Enjoy, smile... wild... peace.

You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I was involved with Wells Fargo Bank as a consultant in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when I suggested to them that they develop a product that has become known as index funds.

Religion disapproves of original thought the way Dracula does sunlight.

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.