If you shouldn’t blame yourself for minor things you did or didn’t do when someone dies, how can you start giving yourself credit for tiny things you did when something really good happens?

Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.

I wasn't very funny or flashy, I was kind of boring.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

I want to have fun. And I want to enjoy what I'm doing.

I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.