The enemy of my enemy may be my friend … of course the friend of my friend is often a jerk.

That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.

I have been too young to know, and I have been too old to care. It’s in that oh so narrow slice between that memories are made.

Every star, turning in the black depth of heaven, burns for no better reason than that humanity raised its face to look. Every great deed needs to be witnessed. Go out there and do something great.

Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.

A book is as dangerous as any journey you might take. The person who closes the back cover may not be the same one that opened the front one. Treat them with respect.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?

What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.

Anger is the fruit of rotten roots.

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.

Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.