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

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

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

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.

You become great when you are eager to find and nourish greatness in the hearts of others.

James is why I never left. I should have left.

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

Something that simply mystifies me.

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

With those kinds of statistics, there are real concerns that cannot be explained away other than race. How long do we turn a blind eye to it?.

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?