I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

What a blessing it is to love books.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

I'm so glad I didn't die on the various occasions I have earnestly wished I might, for I would have missed a lot of lovely weather.

Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms – to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to win the war?

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

We seem to spend a lot of our time in very small spaces spouting a lot of dialogue very quickly.

The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they're doing, we're always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they're going to do.

The flaws, the mistakes I make - that's the real me.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

It is not the reporter's job to be a patriot or to presume to determine where patriotism lies. His job is to relate the facts.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task