Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.

I like to have a martini/Two at the very most/After three I'm under the table/After four I'm under my host.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.

Never throw mud: you can miss the target, but your hands will remain dirty.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

All it takes is one small voice to make a difference." Thread

The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating him anew

A baby is the source of pure joy, a bundle of a warm smile, and a heart of dancing love.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

Doomsday is quite within our reach, if we will only stretch for it.

We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend.

Who is it that said that 'you have not converted a man because you have silenced him?' This is true of the use of the military on people.

I've certainly learned a great deal from my husband, though, and could never have written a book like Liquor without him and the people he introduces me to and the stories he brings home.

Success lies in a masterful consistency around a few fundamentals. It really is simple. Not easy. But simple.