I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.

It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.

I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.

In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.

To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.