"Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child."

"On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach."

"There is nothing like the razor sharp tongue of a good friend to cut through the lies we tell ourselves."

"We must always have old memories and young hopes."

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."

"Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?"

"It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent."

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah."

"There is nothing so asinine that governments will not proclaim it as official doctrine."

"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."

"She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth ... or anywhere else."

"What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."