Vitality! That's the pursuit of life isn't it?

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.

A story has been thought to its conclusion when it has taken its worst possible turn.

Earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is limitless.

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

I never thought I would get to have my own action figure.

Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.