There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

When it comes to housework the one thing no book of household management can ever tell you is how to begin. Or maybe I mean why.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

One who loves lives a thousand years in one day

For heaven's sake, dear, he's a man. Men aren't very good at analyzing themselves, you know.

Those who worry stumble long The Way.Those who pray have no time to stray.

No one can argue with a testimony, it is not a debatable issue. It is there to be accepted or rejected.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

As a director you want to show the truth of people and sometimes that's unflattering, or it's not something that people want to see.

I haven't shaved my private parts, but I dyed them once for a laugh! They looked more ginger, though!

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.