"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."

"The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well."

"Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent."

"We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist."

"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."

"If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."

"The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it."

"The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts."