I would much rather watch myself than listen to myself. The moving is second nature, but the listening... that's the art.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one.

Whenever I write a dramatic poem I can't understand why the characters should ever want to be anything but poets themselves.

Your voice is strongest when you remain firm, when you are not moved by your circumstance. For we must not permit others to define who we are or what we stand for.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste.

We have a tendency to assume people are a unity, and thus good people all good, etc. But the fact that Hitler was good to dogs and children isn't a paradox.

One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.