I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Robert Frost

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Louisa May Alcott

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Margaret Lee Runbeck

I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.

Valerie Bertinelli

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

Rudy Rucker

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.

Betty White

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Judith Viorst

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Laura Bush

I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry.

Shelby Foote

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Ursula K. Le Guin