Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-off at tedium and counter productivity.
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage. It can be delightful.
Humor is reason gone mad.
I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
My wife and I have five children; the reason we have five children is because we do not want six.
Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream.
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
If you appear in the 'atlantic' or 'harper's' or the 'new yorker,' by god, you must be a writer, because everybody says so.
what I really want to say: that what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, negroes, jews, arabs. We are all brothers.
All great achievements require time.
When you think that you lost everything you find out you can always lose a little more.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Authors and actors and artists and such - never know nothing, and never know much.
It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say absolutely anything without fear of punishment.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love
The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?