There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

With plastic surgery, the general anesthetic is like a black-velvety sleep, and that's what death is - without waking up to someone clapping and going, 'Joan, wake up, it's all over and you're looking pretty'.

There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.