We must find within us a happiness with ourselves which no one else can disturb. Otherwise we give them power over us.

Into every life may come tragedy and triumph. Our goal is to meet both equally with serenity and radiant acquiescence. Yet even from the storm clouds of tragedy, rainbows can appear.

Into every life both tragedy and triumph can fall, and we must learn to meet both with equal serenity.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

The devil gives the best first and the worst last, but the Lord saves the best for last.

A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

The only alternative seems to be doing nothing…and doing nothing, I find, rarely accomplishes anything

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

The wrinkles in my brow, The furrows in my face, Say, limping age will lodge him now Where youth must give him place.