When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity she replied "Red meat and gin."

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Some people make you feel worthless. And then there are those who make you feel like a million dollars. Ultimately, it's up to you to decide who you choose to believe.

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

When you get a poem [in a public place], it happens to you so suddenly that you don't have time to deploy your anti-poetry deflector shields that were installed in high school.

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better.

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.