I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

[To her frequently needed plumber:] How would you like to be adopted? I'm sure it would be cheaper.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback - or a start of a new kind of development. [You have the responsibility to decide if you will see it as a bad setback or good start!]

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.