Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

To forgive is to love.

The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.

Murder was apparently too common-place in the big city to attract much notice. Poor Luther, thought Lucy, as she headed back to the hotel. Even in death he was only a big fish in a small pond.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.