"Boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular."

“One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.”

“There is less danger in fearing too much than too little.”

Source : Cited in U.S. News and World Report (27 January 2003)

“I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.”

“Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.”

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.”

“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.”

“the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.”

“There was no active, conscious decision-making point, just a gradual realization over time that I'm very happy minus children and marriage.”

Source : "Women Over 50 Have Sex Drive, Too". Interview with Jincey Lumpkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2012.