My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual.

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

I tend the wounded, /and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.

One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.

To look ahead one must learn to look back.

Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.