I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

There will always be ladies who lunch. Always. And apparently they live a long time.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

It gets tiring being a smartass.

I don't think there's any thrill in the world like doing work you're good at.

This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not.

I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.

if somebody doesn't have any talent, get off the stage! you're wasting my time.

Everybody's got a sack of rocks.

I love holidays in New York. I love 'em. I want to celebrate something all the time and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.

Happiness is not a destination. It cannot be bought, sold or traded. Happiness is the gift of the journey.

One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

I suppose you could pass for a starlet. You do have that femme fatale air about you. Like you crush boys’ dreams in your spare time.

When we read our own writing, we all think it clearly expresses what we mean, because when we read it, we are only reminding ourselves of what we had in mind when we wrote it.

I don't care if your world is ending today because I wasn't invited to it anyway.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.