You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

[On Vice-President Henry A. Wallace:] Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still globaloney.