I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off.

In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.