I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

There's always be a me and you.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

Failure is your best asset, complacency is your worst liability, and talent is your greatest capital.

You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You.

Positive thoughts are mental vitamins.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

All for one and one for all.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Now if I worry too much about all my have nots, I might not recognize just what I've got.

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.