The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can't stop.

There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.

Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.

It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.