"I'm not here to promote your pride."

“At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

“From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.”

“I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.”

Source : "Mary Tyler Moore's Lifetime of Challenges". Interview with Kevin Sessums, parade.com. March 22, 2009.

“the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. ... In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy's camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men.”

“The ear is the avenue to the heart.”

“I am trying to be kind instead of right.”

“Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice.”

“Most loverspicture to themselves, in their mistresses, a secret reality, beyond and different from what they see every day. They are in love with somebody else--their own invention. And sometimes there is a secret reality; and sometimes reality and appearance are the same. The discovery, in either case, is likely to cause a shock.”