...the hard work and poverty of my childhoodturned out to be my greatest asset in later years. Nothing could ever seem too hard after that.

Nothing succeeds like reports of success.

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

It's really amazing what a money reputation will do for your social standing.

When a doctor refuses money, even the most ethical ones, you usually start driving a good bargain with the undertaker.

She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head.

But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.

My suffering helps me to find grace of strength.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Before judging a thin man, one must get some information. Perhaps he was once fat.

Half of the interview is substantive and half of it I think is sizing the person up.

The Americans are just more enthusiastic and more likely to engage in hyperbole.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.