It is better to be safe than sorry.

Charity begins at home.

Curiosity killed the cat.

Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe.

A friend who shares is a friend who cares.

Never swap horses crossing a stream

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program.

The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.