Since flesh can't stay, we pass the words along.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

It is not mental repose they seek, but mental laziness.

Leadership is not a popularity contest it's about leaving your ego at the door. The name of the game is to lead without a title.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard

I think a lot of actors take on fun roles and then they're lazy or flippant with them. I just can't do that.

Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty.

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.