We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy.

Call things by their right names Glass of brandy and water That is the current but not the appropriate name ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded.

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

I was born on September 27, 1918, the second of five children.

I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

I relate to what Gov. Romney brings. I know what it means to balance a budget. I know what it means to write a paycheck and not only cash one. I know what it means to create a job, and I know what it means to struggle with my business every day in terms of keeping our doors open any day but definitely in a difficult economy.

Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.

It's hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it's not good, but because I don't want to play certain types of characters. I don't like to just play the pretty girl.

I have wrestled gators in Florida. I have sailed the ocean with Ted Turner. I have swam the oceans in the Caribbean.

In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like, 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes...' I was an idiot... It's a decade of tears.

What I wanted to do was the comedy, and I found that. I found my bliss, I think.

If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

Caesars wife must be above suspicion.

In the United States, under 3 percent of municipal food waste - so that's the food scraps that goes into people's garbage cans - actually gets recycled. If you go to a place like South Korea, the exact reverse is the case. It's about 3 percent that doesn't get recycled.

Music is a language, you see, a universal language.

Elvis transcends his talent to the point of dispensing with it altogether.

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

We can't really know ourselves because we have not created ourselves. But we can know computers, we can know cars, because anything that we made, we can understand.

I will not be on the bench until I am 60 or 65 years old.

I could take my grandma and put her in a cape, and they'll put her on a green screen, and they'll have stunt doubles come in and do all the action. Anybody can do it. They're relying on stunt doubles and green screen and $200 million budgets - it's all CGI created. To me, it's not authentic.

Spooning a seasonal fruit relish onto a plate of grilled king salmon is very much my style - flavorful, straightforward, and unfussy. I also like the way fresh, ripe fruit balances the richness of the salmon.

I'm pretty open, and when I do interviews, I end up blabbing.