Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.