Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.

If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.

You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

It's hard letting go of the past, when there are no firm handholds in the future.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

Space is the basic ingredient of the universe; there is more of it than anything else.

Everything is just now. Your existence is just now. Just timeless Now. All the rest is just a dream due to conditioning and memory.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.