What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

It was the kind of mouth that should only be found on angels. Chick angels.

I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it - A, B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going.

the internet are the ultimate enemy of unconditional commitment

To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

We will reflect the country we aspire to govern, and the sound of modern Britain's is a complex harmony, not a male voice choir.

People call me the painter of dancers, but I really wish to capture movement itself.

When I first got to St. Louis, I saw the arch and I said, 'I want to go to that McDonalds.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans.

We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.