It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Happy Mind, Happy Home

We are all equal in the sight of the creator

Grace is the power of God.

The past will disappear if we forget we existed".

Every Imagination can be an Amazing Truth..

After all, we fought the Yanks in 1812 and kicked them the hell out of our country - but not with blanks.

The music industry is rolling in cash...

I tend to be really competitive when it comes to Scattergories.

Farmiga proves as fearless a director as she is an actress. She lights up Higher Ground.

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.