Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Work without pleasure will cause pressure that cannot be measured.

Even the poorest among us deserves the dignity of equality.

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Oh, how portentous is prosperity! How comet-like, it threatens while it shines.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

We didn't do anything fancy. We just played blue-collar baseball.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.