No woman need fear the effect of absence upon the man who honestly loves her. The needle of the compass, regardless of intervening seas, points forever toward the north. Pitiful indeed is she who fails to be a magnet and blindly becomes a chain.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

If there's anythin' on earth that can be more tryin' than any kind of relative, I don't know what it is, but relatives by marriage comes first - easy.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

When we get civilised, I believe children will go by number until they get old enough to choose their own names.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.