Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days

It (The New York Times) reads like it was edited by two elderly sociologists, one of whom has been dead for many years

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average

A book is a gift you can open again and again

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that

Beauty isn't worth thinking about what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function