“You'll never be a wonderful woman or even a wonderful human being until you learn to have some regard for human frailty.”

“There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me...We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.”

“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.”

“Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die. ”

“to Alexander the Great, who wept when there were no more worlds to conquer...”

“To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads."[American Libraries Magazine, May 28, 2009]”

“Please sell $10,000 worth of stock — we have decided to lead a mad and extravagant life.”