When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.

If you love to read, if you love nature and if you have a dog, you've got it made.

I had a job; I was, during the war, a nurse, a 'Gray Lady.' We wore a veil and a gray dress.

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Fear is stronger than arms.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

To the extent we push meat a little bit to the side and move vegetables to the center of our diet, we're also going to be a lot healthier.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it.