It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying we need you to come back.

Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.

When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity she replied "Red meat and gin."

Speak softly, but carry a big can of paint.

Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.

Spend time all day and all night monitoring your thoughts, constantly keeping them in a high plateau. Avoid places and people that pull your energy down.

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again.

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

Birds learn how to fly, never knowing where flight will take them.

At 8, I made a pact with God.