I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all.

Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born.

Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

The words "I Can't" should be permanently stricken from your vocabulary, especially the vocabulary of your thoughts. You must see yourself always growing and improving.

Our society is obsessed with personal rights, but it will survive only if we adopt personal obligations.

That's not normal, because we don't want to be normal. Normal is what weak people call it living. I call it death.

You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.

I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.

I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want.