“I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny – 5’1 and a half inches – so there’s nowhere for weight to hide.”

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Without the public support, we cannot withstand two years and a half. Look at the other countries, look what happened in Libya, in Tunisia and in Egypt.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal – a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.