If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

We dare travel to the sacred land.

If you want people to think that you are saying something very important, then say something impenetrable!

A forced contemplation of the heavens, crisp and angelic blue, a classic prelude to death.

Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.

At a certain point, the atmosphere in the West could change. But I don't see determined political will [for that] at the moment.

[On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.

I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.

I get mad when people are against pot.