People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

God hears and answers every prayer.

A grownup is a child with layers on.

The wolf howled under the leaves And spit out the prettiest feathers Of his meal of fowl: Like him I consume myself.

Friendship is tested in the thick years of success rather than in the thin years of struggle.

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.

Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.

Never build after you are five and forty; have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

I've always had a will to succeed, to win, however you phrase it.

And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space.

Everyone is right up there at the very brink of their pain limit.