My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I am part of you and you are part of me. We are one even though we have separate bodies.

...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

There's no better sight on the cricket field than watch Tendulkar bat.

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

I know why the caged bird sings.

Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.