No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.

Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

In university, they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth paw the ground and swish my tail --- none of which is easy.

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person --- her husband.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Mothers, food, love, and career, the four major guilt groups.

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.