A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.

Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.

Just sing it. Don't prove you can sing it. I know you can, you know you can. So just do it, because if you try to prove it, you'll lose.

As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family ritual.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

I've always tried to be cheerful, because I think people who whine are boring, and I never could tolerate bores.

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.