When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.

Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.

Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

There is no more contemptible sound than a gunshot.

Questions create the only light that can permeate a formidable truth.

Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Commerce is a noble profession, and Jews should get over any self-hatred they might harbor from contemplating the capitalist spirit of diaspora Judaism.

During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.