Most people like hard work particularly when they're paying for it.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

Bargain: something you can't use at a price you can't resist.

An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it it's too far to walk back.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.

I won't say ours was a tough school but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like "What I'm Going to Be if I Grow Up."

I have five young children, and I take being a role model very seriously.

And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.

You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.

Memory is a tenuous thing, like a rainbow's end or a camera with a failing lens.

One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him, they would perhaps have remained mere imbeciles.

The important thing is to do the right thing. Then credibility will follow.

Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting.

You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'