Being rich and thin isn't everything.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

When the country goes temporarily to the dogs, cats must learn to be circumspect, walk on fences, sleep in trees, and have faith that all this woofing is not the last word.

A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.