I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories the next.

When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again.

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.

I married him against all evidence. I married him believing that marriage doesn't work, that love dies, that passion fades, and in so doing I became the kind of romantic only a cynic is truly capable of being.

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

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit!

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.