"Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh."

"Our life is frittered away by detail.… Simplify, simplify."

"Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him."

"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."

"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."

"The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue."

"Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze."

"Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth."