One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

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

When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.