"I said to my girl, 'Was it good for you too?' And she said, 'I don't think this was good for anybody.'"

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

"Even writers need relief from words."

"You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence."

"None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen."

"To compare is not to improve."

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred."

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped' for, the evidence of things not seen."

"Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle."

"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars."

"I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's walk - my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father."

"I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please them, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly."