A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.

Secrecy begets tyranny.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you'll abort it if you do. Be patient and you'll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.

All my enemies are self-appointed.

Girls are simply wonderful. Just to stand on a corner and watch them going past is delightful. They don't walk. At least not what we do when we walk. I don't know how to describe it, but it's much more complex and utterly delightful. They don't move just their feet; everything moves and in different directions . . . and all of it graceful.