Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.

A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.

What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.

If you get comfortable, that's how you fall off.

All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.

When a country is invaded and attacked and people resist it's important to speak up and to say they have the right to resist and to defend their right to resist.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.