While I was growing up, I believed I could do anything I could think of. So the challenge was always to keep thinking - to get to where I wanted to be and then to think of somewhere else to go.

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.

If only I'd known my differentness would be an asset, then my earlier life would have been much easier.

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

If you can accept your differentness and learn to love it and encourage it, then you can be someone wonderful.

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it.

To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in this world? How is it you're not robbed daily by charlatans who knock at your door?

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled.

My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment.

Love is a weapon of Light, and it has the power to eradicate all forms of darkness. That is the key. When we offer love even to our enemies, we destroy their darkness and hatred.