Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.

The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

Help does not only come through financial assistance. There are a lot of ways with which one person can help another person.

Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.

Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Kale is a superfood and it’s special power is tasting bad.

I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.

But your job is to work upon yourself: for this you are chosen; the rest is in the hands of God. He who humbles himself shall be exalted.