What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Laugh as much as possible, because one moment will stop this moment.

Every single act of love, hate, or lapse of judgment may be the defining moment in a person's life.

We know, Mr. Weller - we, who are men of the world - that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

Mistress of the grisly and the glutinous

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.

I don't smoke, so they never sent me a copy