It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry a week.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better imitation is not discipleship.

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk and I began to write. The result for better or for worse is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning you better see if you can locate that check.

The security comes as an actor in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career or how people perceive you you'll make yourself unhappy because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off to think 'There's nothing I can do.'

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves you know to put other people down or make fun of them or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

After all it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them it had better be life.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else and if you really work hard you might get lucky and get what you want.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest without meaning.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings but we'll work late and be honest.

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.

The better a work is the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead in fact without one.

As a cure for worrying work is better than whiskey.

It took a lot of blood sweat and tears to get to where we are today but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

As with most liberal sexual ideas what makes the world a better place for men invariably makes it a duller and more dangerous place for women.

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won if only the men had voted.

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren it will be women who make it so.

In my ballets woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.