"I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness."

“Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.”

“Being a lady does not require silence.”

Source : Address at the International Women’s Year meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, geraldrfordfoundation.org. October 25, 1975.

“I want to bring more gymnastics on television.”

“Compromise is usually bad. It should be a last resort. If two departments or divisions have a problem they can't solve and it comes up to you, listen to both sides and then pick one or the other. This places solid accountability on the winner to make it work. Condition your people to avoid compromise.”

“...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.”

“It occurred to me that there wouldn't be world hunger, if you people would MOVE WHERE THE FOOD IS!!!”

“I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.”

“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.”

Source : Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7