You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

The prerequisite for making love is to like someone enormously.

Trying to describe a good marriage is like trying to describe your adrenal glands. You know they're in there functioning but you don't really understand how they work.

Never throw anything good away -- real wool, pure silk. Put it away and wait for it to come back.

I think a single woman's biggest problem is coping with the people who are trying to marry her off!

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.