I took up knitting from time to time as a relaxation, but I always put it down again before going out to buy a rocking chair.

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

Never darken my Dior again!

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God.

That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me

People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul.

When you create, it comes from this deep part of you, and your job is you, and so when you don't get heard it can feel bad and frustrating and you have to somehow keep the confidence up.