"In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think so."

“Standup comedy is fun. I mean other than having to experience the excruciating lonlieness and unacknowledged sadness that results in funny.”

“I would spend more time with my children. I would make my money before spending it. I would learn the joys of wine instead of hard liquor. I would not smoke cigarettes when I had pneumonia. I would not marry a fifth time.”

“I look back to a happy childhood.”

Source : Catherine Helen Spence, Susan Magarey, Maryan Beams (2005). “Ever Yours, C.H. Spence: Catherine Helen Spence's An Autobiography (1825-1910), Diary (1894) and Some Correspondence (1894-1910)”, p.20, Wakefield Press

“Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.”

Source : Ridgely Torrence (1900). “The House of a Hundred Lights”

“I think someone who would watch this would think there is something wrong with me and something wrong with my friends.”

“[President Truman] was free of the greatest vice in a leader, his ego never came between him and his job.”

“Its better to wear out than to rust out.”

“Money, big money (which is actually a relative concept) is always, under any circumstances, a seduction, a test of morals, a temptation to sin.”