"Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did."

"Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out."

"There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in criticism. There must be a disciplined eye and a wild mind...There must be a magnificent disregard of your reader, for if he cannot follow you, there is nothing you can do about it."

"If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them ..."

"If you wear a short enough skirt, the party will come to you."

"Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone? A: You can't hear an enzyme."

"You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do."

"When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly ..."

"Hollywood is the one place on earth where you could die of encouragement."

"Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you."

"Do not give to the poor expecting to get their gratitude so that you can feel good about yourself. If you do, your giving will be thin and short-lived, and that is not what the poor need; it will only improvish them further. Give only if you have something you must give; give only if you are someone for whom giving is its own reward."

"If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist."

"You see I'm such a fool that I'm never afraid of appearing foolish."

"If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold."

"You can spend your time agonizing or organizing."

"I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it."

"Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it's harder to fire up the crowd."

"I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me."

"You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand."

"Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now."

"You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness."

"Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what we want. We want to be stones in a field."

"You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen."

"If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity."