All any child needs is the protection of loving parents and an alternative source of information.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces

Humankind is the greatest resources. Don’t lose faith in the people.

When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

I don't see what was wrong with the old inkpads.

Write from the soul, not from some notion what you think the marketplace wants. The market is fickle; the soul is eternal.

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

Steve Bannon has quoted as lamenting the fact that he predicts a "Fox News" that will be more centrist in the future. He came after our boss Rupert Murdoch in some unflattering terms.

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.