For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.
Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!
If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Men are vain; but they won't mind women working so long as they get smaller wages for the same job.
Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.
You think money can solve any problem, but all it s good for is buying the things it can, and leaving you free to pursue the things it can't.
Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.
I wish I had met [Francesca] Woodman forty years ago. It would have been great to live with her for a year. She didn't save anything. She played the camera like a new guitar. She murdered herself out taking pictures.