Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents?

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

What most of us are after, when we have a picture taken, is a good natural-looking picture that doesn't resemble us.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

As millions of women have done before me, I pulled domesticity over my head like a blanket and found I was still cold.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders

Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal

What you can't get is just what suits you.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

Cancer isn't going to slow me down.

It's not what you appreciate; it's that you appreciate.

I would probably advise myself 10 years ago not to take life too seriously and to just try to be happy.

You can write that it's because I still like Justin. Sexy back means sexiness. Did Strong Baby give off the same sexy feeling as my song now? I write it according to the feeling I get.