I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Never settle for less, optimize your potential wherever you find yourself.

A company attitude is rarely anybody's best.

Even if one doesn't smoke pot, one has to see the benefits of decriminalizing it.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

Survival, I know, is to begin again.

President Obama's health care law raided Medicare in the tune of five hundred million dollars to create a new program.

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.