When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.

"Let us make one point, that we meet each other with a smile, when it is difficult to smile. Smile at each other, make time for each other in your family."

What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

It is really asking too much of a woman to expect her to bring up her husband and her children too.

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

If someone tells you he is going to make "a realistic decision," you immediately understand that he is going to do something bad.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tunafish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy.

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.