There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

Look poor, think rich.

It is the energy projected by an individual's own mind which creates his experience.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

America is just downright mean.

Compulsion is the death of friendship.

Media does not get everything they want all the time. The Democrats certainly don't. They don't win every election, and they don't win every battle.