A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.

There's luck in odd numbers.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.

The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

Better to be safe than sorry.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.

Sure the shovel and tongs To each other belongs.

Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

I don't know how much you know about Zen, but you'll know less when I'm done with you.

Love is blind, friends close their eyes

She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.

We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things.

You can't get out-fought and out-desired. I don't want to see that again. I won't tolerate less than 100 percent desire. I'm their manager, not their babysitter.