I find when death comes, it is usually a woman that is called for.

Many people believe in turning the other cheek, especially when it is your cheek.

I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

... I feel far more hunger pangs when I am denied mental nourishment than I do at the loss of meals.

... I saw a small boy who belongs to one of those large families who only practice at birth control.

Verily, affluence brings anxiety!

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

I've never known a man to be beaten fairly, nor one to be elected, unfairly.

A vision is a promise of the future as seen in the present.

Love and let flowers of peace bloom.

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.

I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other young women of her generation, which are so rarely articulated.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.