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

“I stamp out vast empires. I crush palaces in my rigid hands. I harden my heart against churches.I blot out cemetaries. I feed the people with stinging nettles. I resurrect madness. I thrust my naked sword between the ribs of the world. I murder the world!”

“We all have a right to our private lives; it's living a secret life that gets us in trouble.”

“If I could give you one key, and one key only to more abundant life, I would give you a sense of your own worth, an unshakeable sense of your own dignity as one grounded in the source of the cosmic dance, as one who plays a unique part in the unfolding of the story of the world…”

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

“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.”

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