Oh, I've got the prettiest mother. I've got the nicest mother. That's what I tell everybody. I say I've got the sweetest mother in the world.

I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

No man will ever be a big executive who feels that he must, either openly or under cover, follow up every order he gives and see that it is done-nor will he ever develop a capable assistant.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.

The next time you go shopping, demand more change.

I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

People are just up tight because the kids are having fun and they didn't have the same freedom.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

Love is the subtlest force in the world.

Don't sacrifice yourself for me. I will not be grateful.

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity.

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.